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Affirmative Action
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The Faculty Lounge
Roberts Really Did Switch His Vote On Health Care Law
According to a report from CBS News, based on interviews rather than deft exigesis of the ACA opinioin, Justice Roberts switched his vote on the health care law between the…
The Faculty Lounge
Justice Thomas and Frederick Douglass
Justice Thomas starts off his Grutter dissent with this quote from a Frederick Douglass speech. In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive,…
Employment & Labor
More on the Continuing Saga of OFCCP Jurisdiction in the Health Care Field
It should be an easy matter for an employer to determine which federal laws apply to it. Not so, however, given the way in which the Department of Labor’s Office…
The Right Coast
The Volokh Conspiracy » Asian-Americans, Affirmative Action, and Fisher v. Texas
The impact of Texas affirmative action policy on Asian-American applicants raises serious questions about what the purpose of affirmative action actually is. As I have pointed out previously, if the…
The Faculty Lounge
Reparations Trivia Question
I'm looking forward to Attorney General Eric Holder's graduation speech tomorrow in Chapel Hill. Perhaps this is the reason that I thought that I'd post a trivia question related to…
The Right Coast
How Elites Milk Racial Preferences for Their Own Gain Tom Smith
One of the pitfalls of race-based affirmative action is that many disadvantaged people are less able to take advantage of it than the legal and economic elite.Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Ninth Circuit Upholds California Ban on Affirmative Action
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
Section 31 of Article IX of the California Constitution - - - Prop 209 passed in 1996 - - - was upheld by a panel of the Ninth Circuit in…
The Faculty Lounge
Some Interesting New Perspectives on the UT Affirmative Action Case…
Earlier today, I had some down time while my two year old Bella was sleeping and my eight and eleven year old boys were almost tired after we finished spending…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
Revisiting Race: Supreme Court to Reconsider Affirmative Action
For years, college admissions officers were on safe ground when considering race as a factor in their admissions programs to promote class diversity. This may change now that the Supreme Court…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Breaking News: Oral Arguments in En Banc Rehearing of Michigan Affirmative Action Case
Over the past months, we have reported on developments in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al. v. Regents of the University of Michigan, et al (See here, here, here,…