Fisher v. University of Texas

Fisher v. University of Texas is a Supreme Court case on affirmative action.

Articles and resources

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• Affirmative Action

External resources

• "Oral Arguments," Abigail Noel Fisher, Petitioner, v. University of Texas at Austin, et al, Supreme Court of the United States, December 9, 2015.
• Richard Lempert, "Amicus briefs in Fisher: A cornucopia of law, facts and occasional curiosities," Brookings Institution, December 11, 2015.
• Letter to SCOTUS from professional physicists
• Fisher v. University of Texas (2012-2013), Oyez.

External articles

2015:

• Jamelle Bouie, "The Supreme Court might destroy affirmative action because this white woman’s grades weren’t good enough," Slate, June 29, 2015.
• Kwanzaa Imani, "Abigail Fisher, Please Stop Blaming People of Color for Your Mediocrity," For Harriet, July 12, 2015.
• Ian Milhiser, "The Supreme Court’s Set To Hear One Of The Biggest Race Cases In Years. It Has No Business Doing So.," ThinkProgress.org, December 1, 2015.
• Hans A. von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, "Discriminatory Racial Preferences in College Admissions Return to the Supreme Court: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin," Heritage Foundation, December 3, 2015.
• Emily Bazelon and Adam Liptak, "How Will the Supreme Court Rule on Affirmative Action?," The New York Times Magazine, December 8, 2015.
• Kaitlin Mulhere, "How Wednesday’s Supreme Court Case Could Change College Affirmative Action," Time, December 8, 2015.
• Lyle Denniston, "Argument analysis: Now, three options on college affirmative action," SCOTUS Blog, December 9, 2015.
• Stephanie Mencimer, "Justice Scalia Suggests Blacks Belong at "Slower" Colleges," Mother Jones, December 9, 2015.
• Ilya Somin, "Thoughts on today’s Fisher II Supreme Court oral argument on affirmative action," Washington Post, December 9, 2015.
• Kimberly West-Faulcon, "Why Abigail Fisher’s lawsuit is a modern day Trojan Horse," The Grio, December 9, 2015.
• Charles F. Coleman, Jr, "Justice Scalia Questions Whether Blacks Ought to Be at Top-Tier Universities," The Root, December 9, 2015.
• Libby Nelson, "Fisher v. Texas, the Supreme Court’s big affirmative action case, explained," Vox.com, December 9, 2015.
• Matthew Adams, "Supreme Court hears Fisher v. University of Texas II," The Daily Texan, December 9, 2015.
• Amanda Marconne, "Abigail Fisher deserves an ‘F’ for her race-baiting Supreme Court case aimed at boosting subpar white students," Salon, December 9, 2015.
• Alex Griswold, "Media Jumps The Gun, Attacks Scalia For Perfectly Reasonable Question," Mediaite, December 9, 2015.
• Robert Barnes, "Scalia stirs controversy again with questions in affirmative action case," Washington Post, December 10, 2015.
• Janell Ross, "Antonin Scalia’s strange idea that blacks might do better in ‘less­ advanced schools’," Washington Post, December 10, 2015.
• Sigal Alon, "Scalia was wrong: Students admitted through affirmative action thrive at elite colleges," Washington Post, December 10, 2015.
• Dan McLaughlin, "This Dumb, Dishonest Attack On Justice Scalia Takes The Cake," The Federalist, December 10, 2015.
• Concepcion de Leon, "Fisher v. University of Texas: Everything You Need to Know and Justice Scalia's Controversial Comments," Glamour, December 10, 2015.
• Max Kutner, "Justice Scalia Under Fire After Comments on Affirmative Action," Newsweek, December 10, 2015.
• Nick Visser, "#StayMadAbby Is Black Students’ Perfect Response To Justice Scalia," Huffington Post, December 10, 2015.
• Afi-Odelia Scruggs, "Dear Justice Scalia: Here’s what I learned as a black student struggling at an elite college," Washington Post, December 11, 2015.
• Yanan Wang, "‘#StayMadAbby': African American graduates respond to Supreme Court affirmative action case with humor, pride," Washington Post, December 11, 2015.
• Elias Isquith, "“Extremely inappropriate”: The Supreme Court and the sneaky plot to kill affirmative action," Salon, December 11, 2015.
• "No reason for another court 'do-over' on Texas' affirmative action," Los Angeles Times, December 11, 2015.
• Bill Blum, "The Supreme Court on Affirmative Action: 5 Possible Outcomes," Huffington Post, December 11, 2015.
• Terrell Jermaine Starr, "Here’s what Antonin Scalia doesn’t get about affirmative action: It doesn't give black students an advantage over whites. It barely even levels the playing field.," Washington Post, December 11, 2015.
• Sam Hananel, "Scalia suggests black students belong at ‘slower-track’ universities ," The Grio, December 11, 2015.