Ninth Circuit upholds Arizona law denying bail for undocumented immigrants
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court's ruling that dismissed a challenge to Arizona's Proposition 100 , a voter-approved amendment which denies bail to undocumented immigrants...
What the Same-Sex Marriage Cases Teach Us About Affirmative Action
Eric Segall, Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta
Looking into Affirmative Action through Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Fangxing Li, University of Pittsburgh
Fisher and Shelby County: A Colorblind Court in a Non-Colorblind World
Eric Segall, Georgia State University College of Law
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases on Monday, including a new affirmative action case. The court will hear Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action on whether...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that Michigan's voter approved initiative to ban consideration of race for applications to public universities is unconstitutional . In a split 8-7 decision, the court...
Oklahoma voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure to eliminate affirmative action programs within the state. Seventy-six of Oklahoma's 77 counties approved the constitutional amendment that will affect hiring and education practices...
US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on affirmative action challenge
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin , in which the plaintiff is challenging the constitutionality of the university's affirmative action program....
Unbridled Use of Race in School Admissions Must be Curtailed
JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, says that the University of Texas at Austin's race-conscious admissions policy must be disallowed because the policy only has a minimal effect on the composition...
