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Circuit, the firm secured the services of one of Washington’s top appellate lawyers, Ted Olson, the former head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Reagan Justice Department. Olson won, as the court declared race-based admissions unconstitutional in Hopwood v. State of Texas. Judge Jerry E. ” The ruling hit the higher education establishment like a thunderbolt. Although the Fifth Circuit ruling applied only in three Southern states—Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana—it portended broader application.
He had seen from his involvement in the Texas case that many institutions were skittish about associating themselves with a school that was being sued. Although Bollinger wasn’t the only law school dean who testified for Texas, he knew that a number of others had refused, preferring to keep their distance. At the annual spring meeting of the Association of American Universities in Washington, Bollinger turned his charm and powers of persuasion on his colleagues, imploring them to stand together on the question of race-conscious admissions.
Supreme Court in NAACP v. 5 At Wilmer, Payton split his time between the firm’s staple commercial litigation practice and civil rights. In the late 1980s, the city of Richmond, Virginia, asked Payton to argue a Supreme Court appeal 42 A G AT H E R I N G S T O R M seeking to revive a set-aside program that directed city construction work to minority-owned businesses. Payton readily agreed to take on the case, but soon discovered he faced a daunting obstacle. The city’s lawyers at the lower court level, for whatever reason, had made no effort to show why minorities received only a tiny fraction of the city’s construction dollars.