Posted on 10/03/2005 12:41:58 PM PDT by nypokerface
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that three unsuccessful white applicants cannot collect any damages from their lawsuit challenging the University of Washington Law School's use of race as a factor in admissions.
Without comment or recorded dissent, the justices declined to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that upheld as legal the policy in effect in the mid-1990s when Katuria Smith, Angela Rock and Michael Pyle applied and were rejected.
"The law school's narrowly tailored use of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions during 1994-96 furthered its compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body," the appeals court ruled.
The Supreme Court in a major ruling in 2003 upheld the use of racial preferences in university admission decisions and cited the benefits of a diverse student body. The court upheld the University of Michigan's affirmative action program that favors minorities who apply to its law school.
The appeals court cited the 2003 decision in the case involving the University of Washington law school.
Viet Dinh, a Georgetown University law professor and a former senior Justice Department official in the Bush administration, appealed to the Supreme Court on behalf of the three white students.
"This case is an excellent vehicle for developing the law in this area," Dinh said in the appeal. He said the law school had failed to consider "race-neutral alternatives."
Attorneys for the state urged the justices to reject the appeal. They said public colleges and universities should be given the time to develop and refine their admissions policies in view of what the Supreme Court decided in 2003.
The law school policy at issue in the case was ended after voters in 1998 approved an initiative that prohibited the state from considering gender or race in admissions, hiring or contracting.
The Supreme Court said it rejected the appeal in an order issued on the first day of its new term. The court rejected about 1,800 appeals that had piled up during their summer recess.
"Roberts has been on the court less than a week......Do you really believe he has read all the cases that were presented?....Give the guy a break."
Are you saying he didn't vote on the case?
They are setting "Law of the land" not what's for lunch on Tuesday.
As long we continue to hold a race and declare the guy in 4th place the winner we will be about distroying our future not building it.
Some white kids work their backsides off and then because they are what? the wrong color, not poor enough? Some I already got mine, wanna feel good social engineer wrecks their dreams.
It is a horrible ruling racist and elitist.
Social engineering and not justice.
Give the Kids a break instead and treat them fairly.
Wm
Soap Box (your voice in the wilderness), Ballot Box (if it meant anything any longer it would be outlawed), Cartridge Box! The first two boxes appear to have run their course. They are fast becoming no impedence. Blackbird.
I know your post wasn't meant for me but I'll comment anyway. I am glad that no one was monetarily compensated since the expense will only be passed onto the students. I also think that if Roberts was involved he probably saw that this case was decided by the voters already anyway which was to strike it down. I am glad.
The NBA seems to be functioning quite well with very little diversity......
My girlfriend went to Sweet Briar, an all girls' school in central Virginia. She feels the ABSENCE of diversity, (read boys) is what made her experience there quite fruitful as far as obtaining an education.
But you see, in a world gone mad like this one, those forms of "discrimination" aren't unacceptable, since the victims are only males/whites/conservatives, who somehow "deserve" such discrimination. In fact, in the newspeak of a world gone mad, there is no such thing as discrimination against white male conservatives, only retribution and a righting of "past wrongs".
Well, go ahead and marginalize us further, liberals and PC clowns. Last I checked, we still shoot straighter than you...
Here is another damages issue. There are so many law schools in the USA that literally there are more first year seats than first year students. ANYBODY with a four year degree can find an ACREDITED law school to take them. ANYBODY.
The it is only a matter of passing the desired bar exams. That is there are bar exam prep courses.
It is a 100% certainty that some OTHER law school would take them.
Right. It's just a bogus, shallow case at this stage and the USSC was right to not give it the time of day.
I said this, and wanted to correct it, because I found out yesterday I was wrong. I read that the refusal to hear the appeal was actually voted on before Roberts took office, and they just waited until the first day of the new term to announce it.
"I said this, and wanted to correct it, because I found out yesterday I was wrong. I read that the refusal to hear the appeal was actually voted on before Roberts took office, and they just waited until the first day of the new term to announce it."
Aha. Thank you. That explains the (lack of) press reaction.
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