GRUTTER v. BOLLINGER

Nos. 98-2009, 98-2248.

188 F.3d 394 (1999)

Barbara GRUTTER, for herself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lee BOLLINGER, et al., Defendants, Kimberly James, et al., Proposed Intervening Defendants-Appellants, Jennifer Gratz, Patrick Hamacher, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lee Bollinger, et al., Defendants, Ebony Patterson, et al., Proposed Intervening Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerry L. Morgan (briefed), Taylor, MI, David F. Herr (argued and briefed), Kirk O. Kolbo (briefed), Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand, Minneapolis, MN, Michael E. Rosman (briefed), Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Leonard M. Niehoff, Butzel Long, Detroit, MI, John Payton, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees, Bollinger, Duderstadt, University of Michigan, University of Michigan College of Literature, Arts and Science in No. 98-2248.

Reginald M. Turner, Jr. (briefed), Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin, O'Hare, Helveston & Waldman, Detroit, MI, Philip J. Kessler, Butzel Long, Detroit, MI, Theodore M. Shaw (argued and briefed), Olatunde C.A. Johnson (briefed), NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York, NY, Godfrey J. Dillard (briefed), Evans & Luptak, Detroit, MI, Christopher A. Hansen (briefed), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Leonard M. Niehoff, Butzel Long, Ann Arbor, MI, Milton R. Henry (briefed), Bloomfield Hills, MI, Brent E. Simmons (briefed), ACLU Fund of Michigan, Lansing, MI, Michael J. Steinberg (briefed), ACLU Fund of Michigan, Detroit, MI, Patricia Mendoza (briefed), Amalia S. Rioja, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Chicago, IL, for Proposed Intervening Defendants-Appellants.

Philip J. Kessler, Butzel Long, Detroit, MI, John Payton, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, Leonard M. Niehoff, Butzel Long, Ann Arbor, MI, for Defendant Bollinger in No. 98-2009.

George B. Washington (briefed), Miranda K.S. Massie (argued and briefed), Scheff & Washington, Detroit, MI, for Movants-Appellants in No. 98-2009.

Before: DAUGHTREY and MOORE, Circuit Judges; STAFFORD, District Judge.


DAUGHTREY, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MOORE, J., joined. STAFFORD, D.J. (p. 401), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

Before us are two cases in which proposed defendant-intervenors were denied intervention under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a) and (b), in actions brought against the University of Michigan contesting the use of an applicant's race as a factor in determining admission...

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