Case Study On Abigail Fisher

In 2008, Abigail Fisher is a white student from Houston who claims she was wrongly denied from admission to the University of Texas (in Austin). She sued UT for racial discrimination, which she claims she had the right of racial equality under the 14th Amendment.. UT denied her admission, and Fisher blamed the school’s affirmative action program, which includes race and ethnicity susceptible to being review for certain applications. One of her claims against UT was that there were students in class with lower grades and doing less activities than her, but were accepted to UT due to their race.
Despite Fisher’s and her lawyers efforts, they could not prove discrimination in court. In 2009, a federal district court defended the university’s

policy and rejecter her lawsuit. She appealed the decision, which overturned the prior decision. Throughout this case, their are several appeals. The case eventually went to Supreme Court. On October 10, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the arguments for of Fisher and UT. The question was whether the Supreme Court's decisions explaining the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, allowed UT's use of race in college admissions decisions. Fisher claimed that this must be overturned. The Supreme Court ruled on June 24, 2013, by a vote of 7 to 1, but this decision was appealed.
The 5th Circuit heard oral arguments on November 13, 2013, and ruled in favor of UT with a vote of 2 to 1 on July 15, 2014. On November 12, 2014, the 5th Circuit denied the request to rehear the case. Fisher petitioned to have the Supreme Court look over the case again, and her request was accepted on June 29, 2015. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court in this fall.