SCHUETTE v. COALITION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE

No. 12-682.

134 S.Ct. 1623 (2014)

188 L.Ed.2d 613

Bill SCHUETTE, Attorney General of Michigan, Petitioner v. COALITION TO DEFEND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, INTEGRATION AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND FIGHT FOR EQUALITY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (BAMN), et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Lansing, MI, for Petitioner.

Shanta Driver , Detroit, MI, for Respondents Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, et al.

Mark D. Rosenbaum , for Respondents Chase Cantrell, et al.

B. Eric Restuccia , Deputy Solicitor General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Assistant Solicitor General, Bill Schuette , Michigan Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Lansing, MI, for Petitioner.

Winifred Kao , Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus, San Francisco, CA, Doyle G. O'Connor , Chicago, IL, George B. Washington , Counsel of Record, Shanta Driver , Eileen R. Scheff , Monica R. Smith , Joyce P. Schon , Ronald Cruz, Scheff , Washington & Driver, P.C., Detroit, MI, for Respondents Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, et al.

Laurence H. Tribe , Cambridge, MA, Joshua I. Civin , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, Mark D. Rosenbaum , Counsel of Record, David B. Sapp , ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Karin A. DeMasi , Nicole M. Peles , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY, Erwin Chemerinsky , University of California, Irvine School of Law, Irvine, CA, Sherrilyn Ifill , Damon T. Hewitt , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Steven R. Shapiro , Dennis D. Parker , ACLU Foundation, New York, NY, Melvin Butch Hollowell, Jr. , Detroit Branch NAACP, Detroit, MI, Kary L. Moss , Michael J. Steinberg , Mark P. Fancher , ACLU Fund of Michigan, Detroit, MI, Jerome R. Watson , Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., Detroit, MI, Daniel P. Tokaji , The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law, Columbus, OH, for Respondents Chase Cantrell et al.

Stephanie R. Setterington , Varnum LLP, Grand Rapids, MI, for Respondents Board of Governors of Wayne State University and Irvin Reid.

Leonard M. Niehoff , Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, LLP, Ann Arbor, MI, for Respondents Regents of the University of Michigan, the Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Mary Sue Coleman, and Lou Anna K. Simon.

Michael E. Rosman , Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C., Alan K. Palmer , J.D. Taliaferro , Washington, D.C., Charles J. Cooper , Counsel of Record, David H. Thompson , Howard C. Nielson, Jr. , Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for Respondent Eric Russell.

Bill Schuette , Attorney General, John J. Bursch , Michigan Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Lansing, MI, B. Eric Restuccia , Deputy Solicitor General, Aaron D. Lindstrom , Assistant Solicitor General, for Petitioner.


Justice KENNEDY announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE and Justice ALITO join.

The Court in this case must determine whether an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Michigan, approved and enacted by its voters, is invalid under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

In 2003 the Court reviewed the...

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