Lower Court Holding in Fisher v. Texas
Decision of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Abigail Fisher brought this action against the University of Texas at Austin (UT), alleging that the university’s race-conscious admissions program violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court granted summary judgment to UT, and we affirmed. The Supreme Court vacated and remanded, holding that this Court and the district court reviewed UT’s means to the end of a diverse student body with undue deference; that we must give a more exacting scrutiny to UT’s efforts to achieve diversity. With the benefit of additional briefing, oral argument, and the ordered exacting scrutiny, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment. Abigail…
