Apr 1, 2003 · Facts of the case. In 1997, Barbara Grutter, a white resident of Michigan, applied for admission to the University of Michigan Law School.

The Court rejects the argument that the Law School should have used other race-neutral means to obtain the educational benefits of student body diversity, e.g., ...

The proffered interest that the majority vindicates today, then, is not simply "diversity." Instead the Court upholds the use of racial discrimination as a tool ...

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions ...

Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger are landmark cases that challenged affirmative action at the University of Michigan. The Supreme Court upheld ...

Held: The Law School's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow ...

Grutter was ultimately rejected from the program. Grutter, who was white, argued that the denial amounted to racial discrimination, because the school's policy ...

The Court's opinion in the law school case, Grutter v. Bollinger, confirms that admissions programs which consider race as one of many factors in the context of ...

Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court heard Grutter v. Bollinger, we look back at President Ford's defense of affirmative action in higher education This June ...

Grutter v. Bollinger, a case decided by the United States Supreme Court on June 23, 2003, upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University ...