Supreme Court Recap- Affirmative Action

Not many United States Supreme Court cases directly address universities, however this past June the Court did exactly that with the case Fisher  v. University of Texas at Austin.

Ms. Fisher outside the United States Supreme Court

In the Fisher case, a young white woman was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Fisher subsequently filed a lawsuit against the University alleging that she was a victim of racial discrimination because minority students with less impressive credentials than hers had been admitted when she had not.