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BAKKE v. REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. S.F. 23311.

18 Cal.3d 34 (1976)

553 P.2d 1152

132 Cal. Rptr. 680

ALLAN BAKKE, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant, v. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 16, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jacobs, Blanckenburg, May & Colvin, Reynold H. Colvin and Robert D. Links for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.

David Lehrer, Justin Finger, Joy Meyers, Edward Leavy, Arnold Forster and Robert J. Snyder and John Ligtenberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.

Donald L. Reidhaar, John F. Lundberg and Gary Morrison for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

June E. Moroney, Kenneth L. Karst, Norman Dorsen, Vilma S. Martinez, Sanford Jay Rosen, Roberto S. Martinez, Drucilla S. Ramey, Jack H. Friedenthal, Paul A. Brest, Charles J. Meyers, John Denvir, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Williams, Myers & Quiggle, Emma Coleman Jones, Robert L. Harris, Lennox Hinds, Charles R. Lawrence III and Nathaniel S. Colley as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Appellant.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this case we confront a sensitive and complex issue: whether a special admission program which benefits disadvantaged minority students who apply for admission to the medical school of the University of California at Davis (hereinafter University) offends the constitutional rights of better qualified applicants denied admission because they are not identified with a minority...

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