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The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second time in six years — but with the conservative majority now generally expected to end the use of race in higher education admissions. That would be a major shift for the court, which first ruled in favor of affirmative…

A key player in the 2003 “Grutter” case takes stock of Monday’s Supreme Court arguments.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of race in elite college admissions, many universities are try to attract more students for survival.

Since its first major decision on the subject in 1978, the court has repeatedly upheld universities' ability to consider the race of applicants as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

Since its first major decision on the subject in 1978, the court has repeatedly upheld universities ability to consider the race of applicants as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

The Supreme Court today will consider unraveling decades of precedent that have allowed colleges to use race in admissions to diversity their campuses.

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, itll be for the second time in six years. But todays conservative majority is now generally expected

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of race in elite college admissions, many universities are try to attract more students for survival.

Earlier cases on affirmation action are each known by a single name: Bakke, Grutter, Gratz and Fisher. Here's a look at what they have done since the Supreme Court made their names synonymous with the issue of race in higher education.

Bollinger decisions, pair of cases addressing the issue of affirmative action in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23, 2003, that the undergraduate admissions policy of the University of Michigan violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Gratz v. Bollinger) and that the admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School did not (Grutter v. Bollinger). In 1995 and 1997, respectively, Jennifer Gratz and Patrick Hamacher, both of wh...