Supremes: Affirmative Action in Schools upheld

[Stinky The Clown]

Breaking now. No doubt the full story and background will unfold quickly. I will not be following this, so others might wish to post updates. The ruling was about University of Texas and was apparently quite narrow.

[cali]

1. wow. thanks for posting. I'm shocked and pleasantly surprised that they upheld anything about

affirmative action.

[bigdarryl]

2. They didn't upheld shit

They put it back on the lower court

[Myrina]

3. another thread say AA was overturned.

Links?

[cynatnite]

4. That was my mistake. I deleted it. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

5. Not exactly.

The lower court granted summary judgment (meaning it never went to trial). The Supreme Court said granting summary judgment was improper, so it goes back down to the lower court for a full review (or conceivably for a new summary judgment using strict scrutiny).

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/fisher-v-university-of-texas-at-austin/

From the opinion"

"The reviewing court must ultimately be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity."

[longship]

6. Wrong. Consider self-delete.

Case was sent back with instructions.

7-1 opinion.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. No. You're wrong

They upheld it but said universities must show that no race neutral alternative exists before they can invoke affirmative action.

[longship]

8. Nope. Sent back with instructions.

Just saw the ABC special report.

They punted it back and did not uphold anything.