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Taking A Step Back. Racial Injustice In America, Mark Peffley, Jeffrey Mondak
Taking A Step Back. Racial Injustice In America, Mark Peffley, Jeffrey Mondak
Kentucky Law Journal
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The Smug Assumption Of Reverse Discrimination: Abigail Fisher And Fisher V. University Of Texas At Austin, R. Nicholas Rabold
The Smug Assumption Of Reverse Discrimination: Abigail Fisher And Fisher V. University Of Texas At Austin, R. Nicholas Rabold
Kentucky Law Journal
Many expected Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher I), 133 S. Ct. 2411 (2013)—an appeal from the Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding the University of Texas at Austin's race-conscious admissions program—to sound the death knell for race-based affirmative action in higher education. Instead, in remanding the case back to -the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the consideration of race in college admission programs, so long as such use could satisfy strict scrutiny. Nonetheless, Fisher I concerned academics and practitioners with its potentially limiting language, leaving the future of race-based …