1 / 5

U.C. Regents vs. Bakke

By: Allie Tome. U.C. Regents vs. Bakke. FACTS. Bakke, a white man, applied for the University of California Medical School at Davis twice, but did not get in The school reserves spots for 16 qualified minorities.

kanan
Download Presentation

U.C. Regents vs. Bakke

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. By: Allie Tome U.C. Regents vs. Bakke

  2. FACTS • Bakke, a white man, applied for the University of California Medical School at Davis twice, but did not get in • The school reserves spots for 16 qualified minorities. • Bakkes GPA and test scores were higher than those who were in minorities that were accepted

  3. 1. What freedom was at issue? 2. Why was it at issue? 3. How and why did the Supreme court decide the case as it did? • Whether the University of California violated the 14th amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. • Because he felt he was being excluded solely based on his race. • 5 votes for Bakke, 4 against • Racial quotas violated the Civil Rights act and Bakke would be admitted but some said it was constitutional to have racial quotas in order for minorities to be represented in places of higher education

  4. How did this case change how we understand the Constitution? • The court managed to decrease white opposition to racial quotas but also extended gains of minorities through affirmative action. http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/cases/regents_of_the_u_of_california_v_bakke

  5. Works Cited • "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law." The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law | A Multimedia Archive of the Supreme Court of the United States. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_811>.

More Related