Legal Opinion
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights v. Regents of the University of Michigan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 9, 2011No. 08-1387, 08-1389, 08-1534, 09-1111PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J., joined by Daughtrey, J.,
GIBBONS, J. (pp. 633-46), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
Proposal 2 is a successful voter-initiated amendment to the Michigan Constitution. In relevant part, it prohibits Michigan’s public colleges and universities from granting “preferential treatment to[ ] any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.” Mich. Const, ai't. I, § 26. Our task is to determine whether Proposal 2 is constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…
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