Black and White Case How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge

Name: Black and White Case How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge
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ISBN: 9781576602270

ISBN-10: 1576602273

ISBN-13: 9781576602270

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Greg Stohr

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Now in paperback, the acclaimed history of the most important legal fight affirmative action has ever faced?the two historic University of Michigan cases that led to the Supreme Court's 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger ruling. "Seldom does a book of its genre match the quality of Gideon's Trumpet... Stohr comes very close in his fascinating, insightful A Black and White Case." - Choice The stories behind these pivotal lawsuits are told from multiple perspectives: the rejected white applicants who sued, the conservative legal group that saw the cases as the ticket to a color-blind Constitution, the university officials who called race-conscious admissions indispensable to their mission, and the…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 333
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English




A Gathering Storm (December 1995-October 1997)



A Tale of Two Professors



Getting Lawyered Up



Gratz, Grutter, and Hamacher



Trial Court (October 1997-April 2001)



Equal Protection



Arguments Michigan Wouldn't Make



A Clash in Chambers



Accepted on the Spot



Bollinger's New Front



Duggan's Distinction



Preferences on Trial



On Appeal (April 2001-December 2002)



A Court Divided



Martin v Boggs



Looking to the High Court



The Supreme Court (December 2002-June 2003)



The Most Powerful Woman in America



Friends of the Court



"She's Fabulous"



"Race Unfortunately Still Matters"



Hail to the Victors


Epilogue