Lee Bollinger, Jeffrey Lehman, Dennis Shields, and the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan
Respondents
Maureen E. Mahoney, Counsel of RecordAfter the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978, many State universities across the country developed policies that, while not relying on strict quotas for the admission of minority applicants, did take the race of applicants into consideration when granting admission. In 1997, Barbara Grutter filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan Law School and its officials, alleging the admissions policy it had devised to achieve a "critical mass" of minority students was biased against whites and therefore a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and Federal…
