Fisher v. University of Texas (2016)
Fisher v. University of Texas, 579 U.S. 365 (2016), also known as Fisher II (to distinguish it from the 2013 case), is a United States Supreme Court case which held that the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly found that the University of Texas at Austin's undergraduate admissions policy survived strict scrutiny, in accordance with Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), which ruled that strict scrutiny should be applied to determine the constitutionality of the University's race-conscious admissions policy.
| Fisher v. University of Texas | |
|---|---|
Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Argued December 9, 2015 Decided June 23, 2016 | |
| Full case name | Abigail Noel Fisher, Petitioner v. University of Texas at Austin, et al. |
| Docket no. | 14-981 |
| Citations | 579 U.S. 365 (more) 136 S. Ct. 2198; 195 L. Ed. 2d 511 |
| Argument | Oral argument |
| Case history | |
| Prior | See Fisher v. University of Texas (2013) |
| Holding | |
| The race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner's application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. The judgement of the Fifth Circuit is affirmed. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Kennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor |
| Dissent | Thomas |
| Dissent | Alito, joined by Roberts, Thomas |
| Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV | |
The decision was overturned by Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) seven years later.
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