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Equal Protection
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2nd Grade
12/04/2007

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What's weird about Brown v. Board of Education?
Definition
It talks about how segregation hurts hearts and minds, and some footnotes talk about social science research on how it hurts self-worth. It's kind of weird to focus Con law on social science. They could have just based the decision on the Equal Protection Clause, which prohibits race discrimination.
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Brown II
Definition
About how to find a remedy to segregation; said all schools must be desegregated with "all deliberate speed." The schools can deliberate, but they need to do so quickly.
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What was the real-world impact of Brown II?
Definition
nothing happened
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Green v. New Kent County
Definition
1968; The time for "all deliberate speed" was over and segregation needed to end now.
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What was the solution to segregation between Brown II and Green v. New Kent County?
Definition
Students could request to transfer from one school to another, but none did.
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Swann v. Charlotte-Necklenburg Board of Education
Definition
1971; Busing was an available remedy to solve for de facto segregation.
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What's scary about all the desegregation cases?
Definition
The course was legislating enlightened social policy.
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Adarand v. Pena facts
Definition
1995; there was a federal guardrail contract that went to a minority-owned company even though a white-pwned company underbid it. The government gave road-building contractors more money if they hired "socially and economically disadvantaged individuals" as subcontractors. They had this policy because previous gov. discrimination had made some ethnically-defined communities more disadvantaged. The line was race-based.
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What are two tests to determine if discrimination is legal?
Definition
1) Strict scrutiny; CSI/LRM
2) Rational Basis Scrutiny; does the law have a rational relationship to a legitimate government end?
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When do you go to strict scrutiny?
Definition
If race classifications or fundamental rights are involved.
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Does affirmative action trigger strict scrutiny?
Definition
Yes.
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Grutter v. Bollinger facts
Definition
2003; A white girl couldn't get into MI St. Law School because they wanted minorities. The school made race a factor in entrance.
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What's the deal with Regents University of CA v. Bakke?
Definition
MI St. Law school (Grutter v. Bolinger) patterned their aff-ac program on it; a school had race quotas, so a white student that couldn't get in sued. The court split 4-1-4, with 4 anti-aff ac, 4 pro-aff ac, and one pro aff-ac but anti quotas. So Powell (the 1) defined what was constitutional as far as aff-ac was concerned.
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Grutter v. Bollinger holding
Definition
The Court applied strict scrutiny to aff-ac and MI won b/c having more minorities improves law schools by encouraging cross-racial understanding and better class discussion, which is a compelling state interest. The court basically abandoned LRM because the school could have just lowered its admissions standards. But the court deferred to the school (though it's gov-run and, ergo, has no 1st amendment rights).
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Gratz v. Bollinger facts
Definition
2003; aff-ac gave minorities 20 bonus points on applications to a MI St. U and the court said that wasn't allowed.
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Intermediate Scrutiny
Definition
about sex discrimination; the government action must have a substantial relation to an important government interest
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US v. VA facts
Definition
1996; VMI didn't let women in because of its "adversative training." They had a VA Women's Institute of Leadership as an alternative.
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US v. VA holding
Definition
The VWIL wasn't enough. It didn't matter that VMI would have to soften its program to let women in.
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Romer v. Evans facts
Definition
1996; an amendment to the CO constitution said sexual orientation couldn't get people special legal protection. Some cities had ordinances that violated this.
Term
Romer v. Evans holding
Definition
The amendment was overturned based on rational basis scrutiny; the amendment wasn't rational because only animosity to the class of gays could have led to this amenement.
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