Legal Opinion
Minnick v. California Department of Corrections
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 1, 1981No. 79-1213PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
Petitioners contend that an affirmative-action plan adopted by the California Department of Corrections in 1974 is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The trial court agreed and entered judgment in petitioners’ favor. The California Court of Appeal reversed, 95 Cal. App. 3d 506, 157 Cal. Rptr. 260, holding that the trial court’s rationale was no longer tenable in light of this Court’s intervening decision in University of California Regents v. Bakke, 438 U. S. 265. The Court of Appeal’s *107opinion, however, also identified certain problems that…
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