A Black and White Case
Subtitle: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781576601709
Subjects: Comparative law; United States; Law and legislation; Discrimination in higher educa; University of Michigan; Bollinger, Lee C.,; Michigan; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Grutter, Barbara; Discrimination in higher education; Constitutional; Government - U.S. Government; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Ethnic Orientation/African-American; Law / Constitutional; Law/Civil Rights; Political Science/Government - Comparative; Political Science/Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Affirmative action programs in education; Civil Rights; Trials, litigation, etc; 1946-  -- Trials, litigation,; Admission; Michgian; Universities and colleges
First sentence: CARL COHEN HAD the smoking gun.
Description: "In the late 1990's, two lawsuits by white applicants who had been rejected by the University of Michigan began working their way through the federal court system, aimed at the abolition of racial preferences in college admissions. The stakes were high, the constitutional questions profound, the politics and emotions explosive. It was soon evident that the matter was headed for the highest court in the land, but there all clarity ended." "In A Black and White Case, veteran Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr portrays the individual dramas and exposes the human passions that colored and propelled this momentous legal struggle. His fascinating account takes us deep inside America's court system, where logic collides with emotion, and common sense must contend with the majesty and sometimes the seeming perversity of the law. He follows the trail from Michigan to Washington, D.C., revealing how lawyers argued and strategized, how lower-court judges fought behind the scenes for control of the cases, and why the White House filed a brief in support of the white students." "Finally, Stohr details the fallout from the Supreme Court's controversial 2003 ruling that both upheld affirmative action and upended some of the methods that had been used to effect it. And he shows how colleges and universities are reshaping their affirmative action policies - an evolution closely watched by lower courts, employers, civil rights lawyers, legislators, regulators, and the public."--Jacket.