As a general rule, suing your way into college is not the best way to get in

[bluestateguy]

You just burn bridges, draw bad attention to yourself as a crybaby, run up massive legal bills, fritter away lots of time and damage your employment prospects. And even if you win, you are likely to be a pariah around the campus.

And please, not interested in history lessons about James Meredith or Herman Sweatt or Vivian Malone. That stuff was a long time ago. They were exceptions to the rule.

[tonyt53]

1. When it really is the only option left - as with the people you listed.

[Uponthegears]

2. Should I mention Dr. Alan Bakke?

[bluestateguy]

3. And while he did win, and had a legitimate case, there was a price for him

He said that he was the object of much scorn and derision on campus from other students and professors once he joined the student body.

Today's ruling follows the Bakke v. UC Davis precedent: race as one factor among many, to achieve diversity and acknowledge that the playing field is still not a level one.

[WillowTree]

4. In general, suing your way into almost anything isn't likely to win you any Dale Carnegie awards.

[Raster]

5. Unless of course, you win and win BIG!

Then you can buy friends and influence.

[frazzled]

6. Why are we not discussing this huge SCOTUS decision?

I see almost nothing (maybe I'm missing something) on this board about the unexpected decision that cements the constitutionality of Affirmative Action into our national fabric for now and the future? It's the biggest thing since Brown v Board of Education, and no one seems to be going "Yay."

I'm perplexed.

[bluestateguy]

7. I don't see it as that sweeping

It gives AA a lifeline for a little longer, but much depends on the next election. You know there will be more cases to come. And the ruling continued to affirm that AA programs must be narrowly tailored and will be held to a strict standard of scrutiny.

[frazzled]

8. That is not the general opinion

The decision, by a 4-to-3 vote, was unexpected. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the author of the majority opinion, has long been skeptical of race-sensitive programs and had never before voted to uphold an affirmative action plan. He dissented in the last major affirmative action case.

Supporters of affirmative action hailed the decision as a landmark.

“No decision since Brown v. Board of Education has been as important as Fisher will prove to be in the long history of racial inclusion and educational diversity,” said Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, referring to the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision striking down segregated public schools.

...

President Obama hailed the decision. “I’m pleased that the Supreme Court upheld the basic notion that diversity is an important value in our society,” he told reporters at the White House. “We are not a country that guarantees equal outcomes, but we do strive to provide an equal shot to everybody.”

...

Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., said the decision was gratifying.

“Universities all over the country are breathing a sigh of relief,” she said. “The court very compellingly reaffirmed the importance of diversity.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0