Sentences with phrase «case of affirmative action»

Yet deciding what it means to act justly in particular situations (whether it's a case of affirmative action or the huge global inequalities in living standards) is highly controversial.

Not exact matches

The Supreme Court has refined the rules of affirmative action over the years, and this case gives the opportunity for it to do that again.

The first blockbuster case on the court's calendar is Oct. 10, when the justices will hear argument in a fight over the University of Texas» affirmative action program.

SOME employers are saving millions of dollars with the return of women who have been on maternity leave into the paid workforce, according to case studies from the Affirmative Action Agency.

The Rooney Rule could serve as a case study for other types of firms wishing to enact «soft» affirmative action policies to impact executive hiring.

While Reno may be correct that courts have struck down «the strict use of quotas in most cases,» they have largely ignored quotas when rebranded as equal opportunity, outreach, affirmative action, or targeted hiring.

It's a case of what might have been for Getafe whose owners seem content with their affiliation rather than taking affirmative action.

To read the stance of the American Association for Affirmative Action prior to the June 2003 decision, see «AAAA Statement on the U of M Cases: Is Race the Focus?»

He writes, «In the University of Michigan undergraduate case, Gratz v. Bollinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer, supported affirmative action with data finding that African - American and Hispanic students have higher poverty rates than white students (22.1 percent and 21.2 percent compared with 7.5 percent), and that black and Latino students «are all too often educated in poverty - stricken and underperforming institutions.»»

As stated in the legal brief filed by GM in support of the University of Michigan affirmative action case, «only a well - educated, highly diverse workforce, comprised of people who have learned to work productively and creatively with individuals from a multitude of races and ethnic, religious, and cultural histories, can maintain America's global competitiveness in the increasingly diverse and interconnected world economy.»

The Court's decision to hear Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (Case No. 84 - 1340) marked the first time in recent years that it has agreed to review the use of affirmative - action procedures by school officials.

«It was perplexing that the Supreme Court took the case because the University of Texas admission policy seemed in line with what the court had ruled was acceptable in the Michigan case,» says Professor Julie Reuben, pointing out that in Grutter v. Bollinger the Supreme Court supported the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action admissions policy.

Reasoning that elite colleges tend to espouse relatively progressive views and that their students — having gained entree to the world's most prized institutions — would presumably have little reason to resent affirmative action, she decided this sample would provide insights into «the best - case scenario in terms of support for racial inclusion...»

The narrow decision by the Supreme Court was not surprising for many educators considering the complexity of affirmative action cases, but it still raises questions about how this may impact admissions.

Still, the pressure for students — particularly underrepresented nonwhite and low - income applicants — to package themselves like this is acute at a time when «diversity» remains the only rationale for affirmative action that the Supreme Court has consistently upheld, most recently in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas.

The Supreme Court issued a long - awaited decision yesterday in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a seven - to - one ruling (Justice Elena Kagan recused herself because she had worked on the case as U.S. Solicitor General) that sends the affirmative action case back to a lower court for further review.

Remarkably, in some of the most high - profile cases the court ever heard — namely, cases involving race - based affirmative action — Scalia never offered an originalist defense of his views.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

In the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Justice Lewis Powell's majority opinion supported affirmative action for its contribution to a diverse student body and the «robust exchange of ideas.»

To be specific, the case will consider the constitutionality of Michigan's Proposal 2, a voter - approved ban on affirmative action policies in Michigan universities, which was passed through a ballot vote in November 2006 with a margin of 58 — 42 percent.

After the Supreme Court upheld some forms of race - conscious affirmative action in 2003, UT - Austin quickly reinstated racial preferences in admissions, triggering a challenge that led to the Supreme Court's most recent affirmative - action case.

On October 15, Askwith Forums presented a discussion of the case before the United States Supreme Court concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin and its implications for higher education.

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to announce its decision in the biggest affirmative action case in years: Fisher v. University of Texas.

Jamillah Moore, Ed.D., is the author of Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action.

In a 6 - 2 decision today in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action (companion case Schuette v. Cantrell), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling and upheld a Michigan voter initiative that bans the practice of race - conscious admissions to the state's public universities.

(g) If the court finds that the respondent has intentionally engaged in or is intentionally engaging in an unlawful employment practice charged in the complaint, the court may enjoin the respondent from engaging in such unlawful employment practice, and order such affirmative action as may be appropriate, which may include reinstatement or hiring of employees, with or without back pay (payable by the employer, employment agency, or labor organization, as the case may be, responsible for the unlawful employment practice).

His impressive tally of arguments before the Supreme Court is supported by a strong presence in wider appellate courts, with experience in cases concerning affirmative action policies, environmental disputes and wider constitutional and regulatory challenges.

and Hopwood v. Texas, both federal district court cases and neither the preeminent case on the topic of affirmative action in higher education.

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A news release said that Kiehn correctly predicted some of the year's most important cases, including Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case, and Lawrence v. Texas, the challenge to Texas» same - sex sodomy law.

My comment is that I'm not sure how clear the legal restrictions are in light of voluntary affirmative actions cases like Weber and Johnson, which both provide for the permissibility of such race and gender AA plans under certain conditions.

Like Mauro, Coyle reports that the abortion cases are likely to be early tests of Roberts» consensus - building efforts, as are two key affirmative action cases, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District # 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education.

He published many articles both in technical law journals and also in the New York Review of Books, none more important than his critique in several articles in 1977 and 1978 of the supreme court's inconclusive decision of the Regents of the University of California v Bakke case, which arose out of widespread dissatisfaction with «affirmative action», or positive discrimination.

For the reasons stated by JUSTICE SOUTER, and in view of the attention the political branches are currently giving the matter of affirmative action, I see no compelling cause for the intervention the Court has made in this case.

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the province's law is protected under section 15 (2) of the Charter, which outlines cases where affirmative action programs may be applied to disadvantaged people in Canada.

The full version of the report — which was available via Hulu.com last week but has since been withdrawn — discloses that NBC gave the story only five minutes — an eternity now, but not remarkable for a major story of the day in 1979 — before moving on to a report on that day's argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in the affirmative action case of United Steelworkers of America v. Weber:

To be sure, there are storm clouds on the progressive legal horizon: the UT affirmative action case; Shelby County and the future of the VRA; the reargument in Kiobel; the Article III standing question in the constitutional challenge to the FISA Amendments Act; and a host of other cases in the food chain in which the Court's conservative majority is likely to assert itself at the expense of progressives.

This would be the case where in instances of underlying disadvantage, temporary affirmative action or special measures are allowed in order to hasten equal enjoyment of rights for all racial groups.