Cheryl J. HOPWOOD; et al., Plaintiffs,
Cheryl J. Hopwood, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee,
v.
STATE OF TEXAS; Board of Regents of the Texas State University System; Larry R. Faulkner, President of the University of Texas at Austin in his official capacity; University of Texas School of Law; M. Michael Sharlot, Dean of the University of Texas School of Law in his official capacity; Stanley M. Johanson, Assistant Dean in his official capacity; The University of Texas at Austin, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
Douglas Carvell; et al., Plaintiffs,
Douglas Carvell, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee and
Kenneth Elliott; David Rogers, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants,
v.
State of Texas; Regents of the University of Texas System; Rita Crocker Clements; Donald L. Evans; Patrick C. Oxford; A.W. Riter, Jr.; A.R. Sanchez; Woody L. Hunt; Charles Miller; Raul R. Romero; Tom Loeffler, as members of the Board, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
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December 21, 2000.
December 21, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Theodore B. Olson, Douglas R. Cox (argued), Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Michael Evan Rosman, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, DC, for Hopwood and Carwell.
John Cornyn, Atty. Gen., Brent Alan Benoit, Austin, TX, Beverly G. Reeves, Vinson & Elkins, H. Douglas Laycock, Austin, TX, Allan K. Van Fleet, Harry M. Reasoner, Betty Ruth Owens, Vinson & Elkins, John L. Hill, Jr., Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Houston, TX, Gregory Scott Coleman (argued), Julie Caruthers Parsley, Meredith Bishop Parenti, Austin, TX, Samuel Issacharoff, Columbia Law School, New York City, for State of Texas, Board of Regents of the Texas State University System, Faulkner, University of Texas School of Law, Sharlot, Johanson, Evans, Oxford, University of Texas at Austin, Riter, Clements, Sanchez, Hunt, Miller, Romero and Loeffler.
Albert Henry Kauffman, Nina Perales, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educ., San Antonio, TX, Olatunde C. Johnson, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, for Mexican American Bar Ass'n of Texas (MABAT), Thurgood Marshall Legal Society (TMLS), Hispanic Bar Ass'n of Austin (HBAA), Texas State Conference of the NAACP, Hispanic Law Alumni Ass'n of St. Mary's University of Law (HLAA), Houston Lawyers' Ass'n, American GI Forum of the Texas, San Antonio Black Lawyers' Ass'n, Olivas, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/O De Aztlan (MECHA) at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Black Lawyers' Ass'n, Latino Issues Forum, Whitley, Salazas, Mines, Enriquez and NAACP, Amicus Curiae.
Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for United States, Amicus Curiae.
Before WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE, District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
WIENER and CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judges:
This higher education, reverse racial discrimination case is before us on appeal for the third time. The first appeal ("Hopwood I") was interlocutory and affirmed the district court's denial of intervention sought by several minority rights advocacy organizations.1 The second appeal ("Hopwood II") followed the district court's judgment...
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