Posted on 12/09/2010 8:02:56 AM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging California's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in public university admissions.
U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti ruled against the challenge to Proposition 209, which barred racial, ethnic or gender preferences in public education, employment and contracting.
The plaintiffs argued that the law violated the civil rights of black, Latino and Native American students whose numbers have been reduced at the University of California's most prestigious campuses, particularly UCLA and UC Berkeley, since the ban passed in 1996.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
How many freaking times does this have to be upheld? Are these race-fanatics allowed to keep challenging this indefinitely?
California and Michigan occasionally lead in the right direction.
“...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ...”
Martin Luther King
Washington, DC, August 28, 1963
He got in and eventually graduated because of those quotas, in spite of being in a self confessed “cocaine induced fog” the whole time he was there.
Affirmative action was illegal and unconstitutional from the moment it was passed. Enforcement of the law was illegal and unconstitutional. It must stop!
Until the loony left get the decision overturned, then that becomes settled law and not subject to appeal.
It is simply a matter of time. They will revise their complaint until they hit on a sympathetic judge.
Notice the bio upthread of the judge in this decision.
Born in 1922, WWII Army, Stanford Law 1945-48 which had a lot of members in the student body with first hand experience in the realities of the world, seasoned attorney etc.
Compare that background with O's last two nominations to the USSC to say nothing of those to the lower federal courts and one can see the trend.
The plaintiffs argued that affirmative action ain’t profiling.
Correction: Obama “allegedly” went to Harvard
Shouldn’t a Real Judge be putting these Attorneys in Jail for Contempt?? 14 years and still trying to undo the will of the people, seems to me that it is frivolous at best and at the very least CONTEMPT for We the People , which should be a JAILABLE offense and immediate and permanent Disbarment.
The case was dismissed. The court did not hear it, ergo there was no “upholding” the ban. The outcome you desire (dismissal) was enacted by the judge.
“The case was dismissed. The court did not hear it, ergo there was no “upholding” the ban. The outcome you desire (dismissal) was enacted by the judge”
Tell that to the guy who wrote the headline. Despite the nitpicking, the question remains. How often can they continue to challenge this?
Finally , a judge who listens to the people of California.
Proposition 209, which barred racial, ethnic or gender preferences in public education, employment and contracting. The plaintiffs argued that the law violated the civil rights of black, Latino and Native American students whose numbers have been reduced at the University of California's most prestigious campuses, particularly UCLA and UC Berkeley, since the ban passed in 1996.Yeah, no sh!t. The numbers had been artificially high based on something other than academic achievement etc.
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