Affirmative ActionBlock 2Carl Turner

Official name/Argued and Decided• Regents of California vs. Bakke• Argued on Wednesday, October 12, 1977• Decided on Monday, June 26, 1978

Affirmative Action• Plan to equalize the educational, employment,

and contracting opportunities for minorities and women with opportunities given to their white and male counterpart.

Events that led up to the Case• The Medical school reserved 16 out of 100 seat for

the minorities, including African Americans, Asian, and Native Americans.

• The rigid admission quota was administered by a special school committee.

• Allan Bakke, a white applicant, was twice denied admissions to the medical school even though his GPA and MCAT Scores was ‘’ significantly higher’’ than the minorities applicants who was recently admitted

Cont.• Bakke sued the University in a state court

because the medical school’s violated Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964 and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

• Then he took the case to the Supreme Court because it involved the Constitution.

Argued by the Plaintiff• The medical school violated Title VI of The Civil

Rights of 1964 and the Equal protection clause.

Argued of the Defendant• That it was Constitutional and they were helping

the minorities group.

Amicus Curiae Briefs

None

Precedent• Was a 5-4 decision, ruled that the uiv of California

plan was unconstitutional, because it use a quota• Justice Lewis Powell Jr. announced the Court’s

Judgment

Dissenting Opinion• That the use of race as criterion in admission

decision in higher education was constitutional because a number is necessary to insure that minority applicants will increase.

Long Term effects• Public and private universities have crafted

affirmative action programs consistent with Bakke’s requirments