GRATZ v. BOLLINGER

No. 97-CV-75231-DT.

122 F.Supp.2d 811 (2000)

Jennifer GRATZ and Patrick Hamacher, for themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Lee BOLLINGER, James J. Duderstadt, the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, Defendants, and Ebony Patterson, Ruben Martinez, Laurent Crenshaw, Karla R. Williams, Larry Brown, Tiffany Hall, Kristen M.J. Harris, Michael Smith, Khyla Craine, Nyah Carmichael, Shanna Dubose, Ebony Davis, Nicole Brewer, Karla Harlin, Brian Harris, Katrina Gipson, Candice B.N. Reynolds, by and through their parents or guardians, Denise Patterson, Moise Martinez, Larry Crenshaw, Harry J. Williams, Patricia Swan-Brown, Karen A. McDonald, Linda A. Harris, Deanna A. Smith, Alice Brennan, Ivy Rene Charmichael, Sarah L. Dubose, Inger Davis, Barbara Dawson, Roy D. Harlin, Wyatt G. Harris, George C. Gipson, Shawn R. Reynolds, and Citizens for Affirmative Action's Preservation, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, Southern Division.

December 13, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerry L. Morgan, Pentiuk & Couvreur, Taylor, MI, David F. Herr, Mason, Edelman, Minneapolis, MN, for Jennifer Gratz, Patrick Humacher.

Godfrey J. Dillard, Detroit, MI, for Ebondy Patterson, Ruben Martinez, Laurent Crenshaw, Karla R. Williams, Larry Brown, Tiffany Hall, Kristen M.J. Harris, Michael Smith, Khyla Craine, Nyah Carmichael, Shanna Dubose, Ebony Davis, Nicole Brewer, Karla Harlin, Brian Harris, Katrina Gipson, Candice B.N. Reynolds, Citizens for Affirmative Action's Preservation.

Philip J. Kessler, Butzel Long, Ann Arbor, MI, John A. Payton, John H. Pickering, Wilmer, Cutler, Washington, DC, Leonard M. Niehoff, Butzel, Long, Detroit, MI, Jane Sherburne, Wilmer, Cutler, Washington, DC, for Lee Bollinger, James T. Duderstadt.

Philip J. Kessler, Butzel Long, Ann Arbor, MI, Leonard M. Niehoff, Butzel, Long, Detroit, MI, for University of Michigan, Bd. of Regents, University of Michigan College of Literature, Arts and Science.

Richard A. Wilhelm, Dickinson, Wright, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for College Entrance Examination Bd.

Susan I. Leffler, Michigan Dept. of Atty. Gen., Habeas Corpus Division, Lansing, MI, for Jennifer M. Granholm.

Oscar M. Garibaldi, Keith A. Noreika, Covington, Burling, Washington, DC, Brice M. Clagett, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for National Ass'n of Scholars.

Kenneth Geller, Mayer, Brown, Washington, DC, for General Motors Corp.

Jeffrey S. Silver, Randall E. Mehrberg, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Deanne E. Maynard, Shilpa S. Satoskar, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, Jon D. Botsford, Dwight K. Hamilton, Steelcase Inc., Grand Rapids, MI, for Steelcase, Inc.

Jeffrey S. Silver, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Abbott Laboratories, Bank One Corp., E.I. DuPont de Nemours Co., Dow Chemical Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Eli Lilly and Co., General Mills, Inc., Intel Corp., Johnson and Johnson, Kellogg Co., KMPG Intern., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Microsoft Corp., PPG Industries, Inc., Procter and Gamble Co., Sara Lee Corp., Texaco, Inc., TRW, Inc.

Theodore M. Shaw, Olatunde C.A. Johnson, Melissa S. Woods, NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Godfrey J. Dilliard, Milton R. Henry, Reginald M. Turner, Citizens for Affirmative Action's Preservation, Detroit, MI, Christopher A. Hansen, E. Vincent Warren, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, Patricia Mendoza, Marta Delgado, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Chicago, IL, Brent E. Simmons, ACLU Fund of Michigan, Lansing, MI, Michael J. Steinberg, ACLU Fund of Michigan, Detroit, MI, for Defendant-Intervenors.


OPINION

DUGGAN, District Judge.

On October 14, 1997, Plaintiffs filed a class action against the University of Michigan and various university officials asserting that the University's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts ("LSA") had violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, by considering race as a factor in admissions decisions...

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