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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute of whether preferential treatment for minorities could reduce educational opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke: Affirmative action programs that take race into account can continue to play a role in the college admissions process, since creating a diverse classroom environment is a compelling state interest under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Did the University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by practicing an affirmative action policy that resulted in the repeated rejection of Bakke's application for admission to its medical school?
26 Οκτ 2024 · Introduction. The Fourteenth Amendment declares that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”. In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court held that racial segregation in public school violates the Equal Protection Clause.
Bakke decision, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. The medical school at the University of California, Davis, as part of the university’s affirmative action program, had reserved 16 percent.
Bakke is a 1978 Supreme Court case which held that a university’s admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Find full opinion here.
Definition. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a landmark Supreme Court case in 1978 that addressed affirmative action in college admissions, ruling that racial quotas were unconstitutional but that race could be considered as one factor among others in admissions decisions.
