Legal Opinion
DeFunis v. Odegaard
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 23, 1974No. 73-235PublishedCited by 1,167 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1971 the petitioner Marco DeFunis, Jr.,1 applied for admission as a first-year student at the University of Washington Law School, a state-operated institution. The size of the incoming first-year class was to be limited to 150 persons, and the LaW School received some 1,600 applications for these 150 places. DeFunis was eventually notified that he' had been denied admission. He thereupon commenced this suit in a Washington trial court, contending that' the. procedures and criteria employed by the Law School Admissions Committee invidiously discriminated against him on account of his race…
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