in a 5-4 decision, the justices held that University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts’ use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 42 U.S.C. 1981. Gratz v. Bollinger, No. 02-516.
The current guidelines use a selection method under which every applicant from an underrepresented racial or ethnic minority group is automatically awarded 20 points of the 100 needed to guarantee admission.
