Hopwood v. State of Texas

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 (“Hop-wood I”) was interlocutory and affirmed the district court’s denial of intervention sought by several minority rights advocacy organizations. 1 The second appeal (“Hop- wood II”) followed the district court’s judgment on the merits (“Hopwood A ”) 2 of the individual claims of Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, Cheryl J. Hopwood and Douglas Carvell, and Plaintiffs-Appel-lees-Cross- Appellants, Kenneth Elliott and David Rogers…