Date | Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding) |
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Feb 10 2015 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 16, 2015) |
Feb 18 2015 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the petitioner. |
Feb 20 2015 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from cousel for University of Texas at Austin, and Individual respondents. |
Mar 11 2015 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including April 15, 2015. |
Mar 12 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc, and Allied Educational Foundation filed. |
Mar 12 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Gail Heriot, and Peter Kirsanow filed. |
Mar 13 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. filed. |
Mar 16 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed. |
Mar 16 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of American Civil Rights Union filed. |
Mar 16 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed. |
Mar 16 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed. |
Mar 16 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. |
Apr 15 2015 | Brief of respondents University of Texas at Austin, and Individual Respondents in opposition filed. |
May 4 2015 | Reply of petitioner Abigail Noel Fisher filed. (Distributed) |
May 5 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 21, 2015. |
May 26 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 28, 2015. |
Jun 1 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 4, 2015. |
Jun 8 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 11, 2015. |
Jun 15 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 18, 2015. |
Jun 22 2015 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 25, 2015. |
Jun 29 2015 | Petition GRANTED. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition. |
Jul 27 2015 | The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including September 3, 2015. |
Jul 27 2015 | The time to file respondents' briefs on the merits is extended to and including October 26, 2015. |
Aug 11 2015 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or of neither party received from counsel for the petitioner. |
Aug 21 2015 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or of neither party from counsel for the respondents. |
Sep 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Jonathan Zell filed. |
Sep 3 2015 | Joint appendix filed (2 volumes). (Statement of costs filed.) |
Sep 3 2015 | Brief of petitioner Abigail Noel Fisher filed. |
Sep 9 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Individual Rights filed. |
Sep 9 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, Members of the United States Commission on Civil Rights filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of The Cato Institute filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of American Center for Law and Justice filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of California Association of Scholars filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Asian American Legal Foundation, et al. filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of David Orentlicher in support of neither party filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Judicial Education Project filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard D. Kahlenberg in support of neither party filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Indiana Tech Law School Amicus Project filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of James F. Blumstein filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, et al. filed. |
Sep 10 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard Sander in support of neither party filed. |
Oct 9 2015 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 |
Oct 19 2015 | Record requested from U.S.C.A. 5th Circuit. |
Oct 26 2015 | Brief of respondents University of Texas at Austin, and Individual Respondents filed. |
Oct 26 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of The Family of Heman Sweatt filed. |
Oct 27 2015 | CIRCULATED. |
Oct 28 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of New York Law School Racial Justice Project filed. (Distributed). |
Oct 28 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Nationwide Coalition of Educators, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 29 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard Lempert filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 29 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor W. Burlette Carter filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 29 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Human Rights Advocates, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Coalition of Bar Associations of Color filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of American Council on Education and 37 Other Higher Education Organizations filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of The College Board, AACRAO, NCAC, and LSAC filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of American Educational Research Association, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of California filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of 823 Social Scientists filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of New York State Bar Association filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amici curiae of American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Society for American Law Teachers filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 30 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) filed. |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Constitutional Law Scholars and Constitutional Accountability Center filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Ruben Hinojosa, Member of Congress, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Association of American Law Schools filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of 53 Current Members of the Texas State Senate and House of Representatives filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Current and Former Student Body Presidents of University of Texas at Austin filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Kimberly West-Faulcon filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of American Jewish Committee, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Association of American Medical Colleges, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Students from the New York University School of Law Seminar on Critical Narratives in Civil Rights filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Leading Public Research Universities The University of Delaware, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Brown University, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of the United States filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of American Psychological Association filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of the President and the Chancellors of the University of California filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Fortune-100 and Other Leading American Businesses filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National Association of Basketball Coaches, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Empirical Scholars filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Harvard University filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Civil Rights Clinic and the Education Rights Center at Howard University School of Law filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National Education Association, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of United Negro College Fund and National Urban League filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of California Institute of Technology, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Texas State Conference of the NAACP filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Dupont, IBM, Intel, and National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Amherst College, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Professors Cedric Merlin Powell, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of U.S. Senators Harry Reid, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Teach for America, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Anti-Defamation League filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of American Bar Association filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Religious Organizations and Campus Ministries, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of University of Michigan filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of 39 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Organizations Within the University of California filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of Six Educational Nonprofit Organizations filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Dean Robert Post and Dean Martha Minow filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National School Boards Association, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Massachusetts, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Experimental Psychologists filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amicus curiae of David Boyle filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Boston Bar Association, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Cecilia Polanco, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Social and Organizational Psychologists filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National Women's Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr., et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Members of Asian-Americans Advancing Justice, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of National and Texas Latino Organizations filed. Distributed). |
Nov 2 2015 | Brief amici curiae of Legal Scholars Defending Diversity in Higher Education filed. (Distributed) |
Nov 24 2015 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. Justice Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion. |
Nov 25 2015 | Reply of petitioner Abigail Noel Fisher filed. (Distributed) |
Dec 9 2015 | Argued. For petitioner: Bert Rein, Washington, D. C. For respondents: Gregory G. Garre, Washington, D. C.; and Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (for United States, as amicus curiae.) |
Jun 23 2016 | Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Roberts, C. J., and Thomas, J., joined. Kagan, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Jul 25 2016 | JUDGMENT ISSUED |