Perspective
Feb. 27, 2012
Is it time to re-appraise affirmative action?
More than 15 years after Proposition 209, Black and Hispanic students remain under-enrolled at UC campuses. By Mark S. Williams of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost LLP
FIRST IN A TWO-PART SERIES
On Feb. 13, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenneger et al., a legal challenge to the constitutionality of Proposition 209, a voter-passed amendment to the California Constitution. Proposition 209 (now found in Article 1, Section 31, of the state Constitution), forbids the state and local agencies from discrimi...
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