Case Study Analysis

Running head: CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
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CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
Case:
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003)
Facts of the case:
The main matter of issue of the case is the racial discrimination that was alleged to be
practiced in the University of Michigan Law School (Davenport, Howard & Harrington Weston,
2018). The University denied the admission of Barbara Grutter who was a white Michigan
resident having the required qualifications of 3.8 GPA and a 161 LSAT score. She then filed a
suit alleging that the University had rejected her admission by discriminating her based on her
race violating the 14th Amendment, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and also 42U.S.C. §
1981. The 14th Amendment forbids the States from denying equal protection of law to any person
within its territorial jurisdiction. She also argued that she was not given admission as the
University considers race as a predominant criterion as they allowed applicants from a particular
minority section a better opportunity than those from disfavored race.
However, the University argued that they are bound to consider the state interest to
ensure the presence of students from minority sections like African Americans and Hispanics in
the student category (Magstadt, 2016). They even argued that they adopted this procedure to
provide sufficient opportunities to all categories of students specially the minority race students
such that they do not feel separated and isolated, thereby giving better educational benefits to all.