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A Brief Note On The Supreme Court Case University Of California V. Bakke

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n the Supreme Court case University of California v. Bakke in 1978, Allan Bakke, a white applicant, was denied admission to the University of California, Davis Medical School because he was white, although he had great MCAT, GPA, and test scores he was denied twice, because the school was using “racial quotas” during admission and had “reserved 16 out of 100 seats in its entering class for minorities, including "Blacks," "Chicanos," "Asians," and "American Indians"’’("Regents of the University of California v. Bakke." West's Encyclopedia). Bakke sued the University of California for using “racial quotas” as well as claiming that the schools admission processes was a violation of “Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fourteenth …show more content…

Bakke went through many small federal courts, rulings, and appeals before it finally reached the Supreme Court. Initially, the California lower court ruled that the school’s admission processes was violating the state and federal constitution however it did not demand the university to admit Bakke because they believed Bakke did not show enough evidence that he would have gotten into the school if the minority program did not exist. However, Bakke then appealed to the California Supreme Court and they ruled that it is actually the university's responsibility to justify that Bakke does not meet the criteria to be admitted. And then proceeded to order the school to admit Bakke. The university did not agree with the decision so they appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, they agreed to review the case but Bakke’s admission was denied while the Court was coming to a decision. On June 27, 1978, the Supreme Court was divided between two different viewpoints. Four justices only focused on the “Statutory issue of Title VI and found for Bakke authorizing his admission to the school, because the quota in the university’s admission program had obviously excluded Bakke because of his race” (McBride). They recognized that the University was at fault and Bakke should be admitted. The other four justices centralized on the constitutional issues, the violation of the Equal Protection Clause, and justified that the admission process of the university wasn’t intended

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