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Title: Defunis Et Al. v. Odegaard Et Al.
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 23, 1974
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 86 KB

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In 1971 the petitioner Marco DeFunis, Jr., applied for admission as a first-year student at the University of Washington Law School, a state-operated institution. The size of the incoming first-year class was to be limited to 150 persons, and the Law School received some 1,600 applications for these 150 places. DeFunis was eventually notified that he had been denied admission. He thereupon commenced this suit in a Washington trial court, contending that the procedures and criteria employed by the Law School Admissions Committee invidiously discriminated against him on account of his race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.