The case revolves around one white man's claim that he was discriminated against in favor of blacks, but far more is at stake in the deliberations now getting under way before the Supreme Court of the ...
The court first issued a ruling on the merits of affirmative action in 1978 in the Bakke decision. Allan Bakke was a white engineer who applied for admission to medical school at the University of ...
Tom Fody: The Supreme Court waited almost until the very end of its term to deal with the hottest potato on its 1978 calendar, the Allan Bakke so-called reverse-discrimination case. At issue was ...
One landmark Supreme Court case on the matter is the 1978 case California v. Bakke. Allan Bakke was a white 35-year-old man who had been denied admission to the University of California Medical ...