(NOTE TO READERS: This post deals with a follow-up development in an affirmative action case from the Supreme Court’s last Term, not the new case scheduled for next Term that is the subject o...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/09/next-round-in-fisher-case/
The same day the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas, the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin began in Florida. Since the sh...
Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin demonstrates as well as anything else could that the Supreme Court should never have granted certiorari in this case. Ther...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/fisher-commentary-everyone-wins-everyone-loses/
Vikram Amar is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at UC Davis. On the one hand, my ego is heartened to know that last fall, in writing for this site, I explicitly observed t...
Olatunde Johnson is a professor of law at Columbia University Law School. In its ruling today in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Court preserved Grutter’s core holding that “obta...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/fishers-big-news-no-big-news/
The Court’s decision today in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin shows the folly of predicting outcomes with any degree of confidence. It brings to mind a story about when Thurgood Marsh...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/fisher-v-university-of-texas-in-with-a-bang-out-with-a-fizzle/
The case is undeniably a loss for the University of Texas and for supporters of racial preferences in university admissions, because a court of appeals ruling that upheld such discrimination has ...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/commentary-on-fisher-better-off-than-we-were-a-year-ago/
Richard Sander is Professor of Law at UCLA and the co-author of Mismatch. In 2003, the last time the Supreme Court took up the issue of racial preferences in higher education (the case of Grutt...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/commentay-on-fisher-a-classic-kennedy-compromise/
The blog is pleased to have reactions to today’s oral arguments from supporters of both sides. This post has reactions from Roger Clegg, a supporter of Abigail Fisher; we will post reactions ...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/10/thoughts-on-the-oral-argument-in-fisher-v-university-of-texas/
My point was not that there is no difference between race-conscious affirmative action and any conceivable substitute – it is that there is likely to be little difference between race-conscious...
https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-fisher-symposium-a-response-to-richard-kahlenberg/