Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN) et al., Respondents
George B. Washington, Counsel of Record
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School’s policy of considering race as a factor in student admissions was constitutional. Opponents of this decision proposed amending the Michigan Constitution to forbid race-, origin-, and sex-conscious in college admissions, contracting, and public employment. In November 2006, 58 percent of Michigan’s voters approved such a measure, called Proposal 2. The day after the election, a group of students, led by the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN), filed suit against…
