Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, 476 U.S. 267 (1986), was a case before the United States Supreme Court. It is the seminal case for the "strong-basis-in-evidence...

Schools. The school board of Piscataway, New Jersey needed to eliminate a teaching position from the high school's Business Education department. Under...

Michael G. Wygant (born 1936), American diplomat Wygant State Natural Area, a state park in Oregon, US Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, United States...

segregation unconstitutional in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education, Southern Democrats began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation,...

appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers at the time, the cases were split with Jackson recusing from...

students by the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, were impermissible. Although in Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court had outlawed...

right was later overruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022). The Supreme Court's decision in Lochner v. New York has been criticized by...

Firefighters v. NAACP, 461 U.S. 477 (1983) 1984 — Firefighters v. Stotts, 467 U.S. 561 (1984) 1986 — Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education, 476 U.S. 267...

States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which held that "a child born in the United States, of parents...

Court's 1954 ruling on Brown v. Board of Education when it began ruling and so the injunction was filed. The Supreme Court of Washington had strong opinions...

these differences in Gaston County v. United States, 395 U.S. 285 (1969). There, because of the inferior education received by Negroes in North Carolina...

eds., Sex, Race, & Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and Employment (University of Michigan, 2000), 220, available online, accessed February...

offshoot of the Project on Fair Representation. This organization solicits individuals who claim to have been rejected by higher education institutions...

Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action...

specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and public education. Modeled on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the California Civil...

the Commission found that the Departments of Defense, Transportation, United States Department of Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, State...

basis of race or color." He cited Justice Powell who, announcing the strong-basis-in-evidence standard for the plurality in Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education...

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...

striking down a state statute limiting the number of aliens that an employer could employ State Board of Control v Buckstegge, 158 Pac 837, 842 (1916): Arizona...

from activist Jesse Jackson and other supporters of affirmative action. The year after affirmative action was abolished, the number of Asian students admitted...

S. Ct. 706, 102 L. Ed. 2d 854 (plurality opinion of O'Connor, J.) (quoting Wygant v. Jackson Bd. of [**530] Ed., 476 U.S. 267, 320, 106 S. Ct. 1842, 90...

Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled that citizens of the United States...

Mackenzie v. Hare, 239 U.S. 299 (1915), is a United States Supreme Court case that upheld Section 3 of the Expatriation Act of 1907, which dictated that...

Plaintiffs v. Alan Campbell, Director, Office of Personnel Management, et al. also known as Luévano v. Campbell, [93 F.R.D. 68 (D.D.C. 1981)] Luévano v. Campbell...

construction industry. Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education 476 US 267 (1986) a preference for teachers to be laid off in reverse order of seniority unless...

Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, 68 F.4th 864 (4th Cir. 2023), is a United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case about the...

involving affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) that the UC Davis medical...

American government official and Republican politician, he was a pioneer of affirmative action as he was largely responsible for the Revised Philadelphia...

Fisher v Texas Arguments", Chronicle of Higher Education, October 10, 2012. Fisher v. University of Texas, 570 U.S., (slip op., at 11). Fisher v. University...

office, board, commission, committee, division, unit, branch, bureau, council, or subunit of the state; (c) any public institution of higher education; (d)...