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The Supreme Court sent the Fisher case back


U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Use of Race-Conscious Programs in ...

In the 2013 decision in Fisher I, the Court sent the case back to the lower courts for an examination of whether the University of Texas had established ...

Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back To Lower Court

... Justice Department she had been involved in the case.) The case originated with a young woman named Abigail Fisher. She and another student ...

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action | Harvard Magazine

The Supreme Court had considered Fisher's case in 2013, and sent it back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after finding that the lower ...

Supreme Court Remands Fisher Case to Lower Court

The US Supreme Court on Monday sent a prospectively landmark affirmative action case involving the University of Texas at Austin back to a lower court.

The Supreme Court sent the Fisher case back, but make no mistake

The US Supreme Court just side-stepped making any major decision in Fisher vs. University of Texas and asked the lower courts for a do-over ...

Affirmative action case sent back by US Supreme Court - BBC News

Abigail Fisher said the college policy of considering her race violated her civil and constitutional rights. The ruling appears to leave ...

Finally! The Fisher decision in Plain English - SCOTUSblog

Because the lower court had not done so, the Court sent the case back for it to determine whether the university could make this showing.

What Abigail Fisher's Affirmative Action Case Was Really About

The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the use of race ... In a controversial 2007 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts sent ...

Justices Seek 'Strict Scrutiny' In Affirmative Action Case - NPR

Rather than directly resolving the dispute, the court sent Fisher's case and the affirmative action program back to the lower courts for further ...

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

Accordingly, the Court sent the case back to the appeals court to analyze the University's policy under strict scrutiny. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who cast ...

After Supreme Court's Fisher decision: what we need to know about ...

In 2013, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower court to conduct a more rigorous assessment of whether UT Austin needed to consider ...

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

... the Supreme Court's ... the Supreme Court's decision to send the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin affirmative action case back to the Fifth Circuit Court.

Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court

(CNN) — When the Supreme Court on Monday sent Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case, back to the lower court for a ...

The mystery of Fisher II review - SCOTUSblog

... case after it was sent back there two years ago. The Justices ... When her lawyers took the case back to the Supreme Court, they ...

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin | 579 U.S. ___ (2016)

But if the majority is determined to give UT yet another chance, we should reverse and send this case back to the District Court. What the ...

Fisher v. University of Texas (2013) - Wikipedia

The Supreme Court agreed on February 21, 2012, to hear the case. Justice ... sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit court. In November, the Fifth ...

Fisher v. Texas, the Supreme Court's big affirmative action case ...

Fisher's case got all the way to the Supreme Court. In a 7-1 decision in 2013, the justices sent it back to the Fifth Circuit, saying the ...

FISHER V. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (FISHER II ...

While the U.S. Supreme Court sent the case back to the Court of Appeals for a new decision, it did not upset any of its previous rulings regarding the ...

From the Vault: Supreme Court decides Fisher v. University of Texas ...

Three years ago, the Supreme Court sent an affirmative action case involving college admissions back to a lower court and said "strict ...

Supreme Court Decision on Fisher v. University of Texas

... sent back to an appeals court for further scrutiny. The case stemmed from a lawsuit by Abigail Fisher, a white applicant to the university ...