1. Block 2 Carl Turner

2. Regents of California vs. Bakke Argued on Wednesday, October 12, 1977 Decided on Monday, June 26, 1978

3. Plan to equalize the educational, employment, and contracting opportunities for minorities and women with opportunities given to their white and male counterpart.

4. The Medical school reserved 16 out of 100 seat for the minorities, including African Americans, Asian, and Native Americans. The rigid admission quota was administered by a special school committee. Allan Bakke, a white applicant, was twice denied admissions to the medical school even though his GPA and MCAT Scores was ‘’ significantly higher’’ than the minorities applicants who was recently admitted

5. Bakke sued the University in a state court because the medical school’s violated Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964 and the 14 th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. Then he took the case to the Supreme Court because it involved the Constitution.

6. The medical school violated Title VI of The Civil Rights of 1964 and the Equal protection clause.

7. That it was Constitutional and they were helping the minorities group.

8. None

9. Was a 5-4 decision, ruled that the uiv of California plan was unconstitutional, because it use a quota Justice Lewis Powell Jr. announced the Court’s Judgment

10. That the use of race as criterion in admission decision in higher education was constitutional because a number is necessary to insure that minority applicants will increase.

11. Public and private universities have crafted affirmative action programs consistent with Bakke’s requirments