Allan Bakke

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Allan Bakke is an American engineer and former U.S. Marine officer best known as the white applicant whose legal challenge to a medical school’s affirmative action admissions policy led to the landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf engineer
former U.S. Marine officer
human
litigant
alleged racial discrimination in admissions
associatedWith U.S. Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
basedOn Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (legal claim)
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (legal claim)
challenged affirmative action admissions policy
racial quota system at UC Davis School of Medicine
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
education engineering degree
ethnicGroup white American
fieldOfStudy medicine (as applicant)
gender male
hasLegalConsequence 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions
influenced policies on race-conscious admissions in U.S. higher education
legalAction lawsuit against University of California, Davis School of Medicine
legalIssue constitutionality of race-based admissions criteria
use of racial quotas in public university admissions
militaryBranch United States Marine Corps
militaryRank officer
notableFor Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
challenge to affirmative action in medical school admissions
occupation engineer
partyTo Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
residence United States
roleInCourtCase plaintiff in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
timePeriod 20th century

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Bakke
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
respondent
Bakke
namedAfter
Bakke ("Allan Bakke ordered admitted to the University of California, Davis School of Medicine")
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