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The U.S. Supreme Court's first major decision on affirmative action. The Court ruled that the University of California could consider race as part of a competitive admissions process as long as it did not use quotas.
In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College, 600 U.S. ___ (2023) (university admission program that considered race as a factor violated the 14th Amendment equal protection clause), the Supreme Court effectively—but without expressly saying so—overruled Bakke.