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Racial Justice : Affirmative Action : Legal Documents

University of Michigan Intervenor Petition for Certiorari (11/14/2002)
University of Michigan - Supreme Court Petition

ACLU Amicus in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (06/07/1977)
The ACLU's amicus brief in a seminal case affirming the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action programs.

CO Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative: ACRI Reply Brief in Title Challenge (12/30/1899)
The petition considered in this case is one of a series of anti-affirmative action initiatives being forwarded in 5 states for the fall of 2008, each of which is deceptively billed as a ban on "discrimination" and "preferences." In this brief, the ACRI responds to charges that its initiative is unconstitutionally broad, prejudicial and misleading to voters.

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