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The California Restaurant Association, or CRA, filed an appeal Aug. 4 against a July district court ruling supporting Berkeley’s ban on natural gas.
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Former president Barack Obama’s policies, which outlined ways that schools could legally use race as a factor in admissions decisions, have not been in effect in California since Proposition 209 passed in 1996, banning race as a consideration in admissions.
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Three UC Berkeley School of Law professors, John Yoo, Jesse Choper and Daniel Farber, debated in a panel Tuesday about recent U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s qualifications and the effect he will have on the Supreme Court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a significant victory to supporters of affirmative action June 23 when it upheld the consideration of race in the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. But the decision won’t impact the university’s admissions policy because California state law supersedes the verdict.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the rights of voters to ban the consideration of race from public university admissions Tuesday, in a decision that affirmed California’s hotly contested race-blind admissions process.
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