# Brown v. United States

> Supreme Court of the United States · July 1, 1996 · 518 U.S. 1033

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9157057

## Case

- **Full name:** Brown v. United States
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** July 1, 1996
- **Citations:** 518 U.S. 1033; 135 L. Ed. 2d 1095
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 47 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining denial of petition for writ of certiorari by noting that petitioner did not challenge lower court’s judgment that university admis sions procedure was unconstitutional; petition challenged only rationale relied on by court of appeals
- holding that “consideration of race or ethnicity by the [University of Texas] law school for the purposes of achieving a diverse student body is not a compelling interest under the Fourteenth Amendment.”
- finding that the state’s interest in diversity at a law school was not compelling and declaring that school’s admissions policy, which employed racial classifications, unconstitutional
- rejecting admittance procedures which purposefully admitted black and Hispanic students with lower entrance examination scores and grade point averages

## Opinion text

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