Legal Opinion
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Granholm
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 29, 2006No. Nos. 06-2640, 06-2642PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
On November 7, 2006, the people of Michigan approved a statewide ballot initiative — Proposal 2 — which amended the Michigan Constitution to prohibit discrimination or preferential treatment based on race or gender in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting in the State. Under the Michigan Constitution, the proposal was sched*240uled to go into effect on December 23, 2006. At stake today is whether the federal courts should permit this state initiative to go into effect or whether we should preliminarily enjoin it in part — -in the…
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