Today in Supreme Court History: April 1, 2003

4/1/2003: Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger argued.

Comments

[DaivdBehar]

Shows decisions are based on feelings, whims, and biases. They are garbage.

[Michael Ejercito]

Partially overruling Brown v. Board of Education.

[I Callahan]

Fitting they were argued on April Fool's day...

[SMP0328]

Hopefully, Grutter v. Bollinger gets overruled later this year.

[santamonica811]

So, a series about cases we should know tells is NOTHING about the case. One case held that the undergrad policy was unconstitutional; the other held that the law school policy was constitutional. What policy???? (For those of us who know the policies already; we don't need this series, of course.) These aren't cases we should know about, obviously; these are case holdings we should know about...as though our lives or knowledge will be improved in any way by being able to give the majority and minority breakdowns of these cases, but be utterly unable to give even one sentence about what issue(s) was/were at play.

Sheesh. You needed 2 law professors to do this? My 5th grade niece could do it, with 45 seconds of research on Wikipedia. (Pro tip; Look at the videos Eugene Volokh did, for examples of media that are not a waste of the viewers' time.)

Make sure to tune in for my series of videos, "Important wars everyone should know."
1. "World War 2. The Allies (GB, USA, France, Russia, and China) won, and the Axis (Germany, Japan, Italy) lost. The end."

There, WWII, in 10.6 seconds. You're welcome, world.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Indeed.