Lee C. Bollinger, a Santa Rosa native, is president of Columbia University and a director of the Washington Post Co. He was the named defendant in the 2003 cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v.

Many colleges have largely disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s admonition to seriously consider other options before using race-conscious admissions policies, argues a forthcoming Catholic University ...

Last week marked the second anniversary of Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan’s use of race in law-school admissions as a legitimate way to create ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will take up the issue of affirmative action again Monday — the second time in six years — but with the conservative majority now generally expected to end the use ...

Before University President Lee Bollinger rose as the named defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 landmark Supreme Court case concerning race-conscious admissions, he never intended on becoming a ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments from a pair of cases on Monday challenging the basis for affirmative action established in Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark case University President Lee ...

The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the University of Michigan Law School's admissions system was constitutional. The case was Grutter v. Bollinger. THE MAJORITY Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing ...

This case challenged the use of affirmative action in the University of Michigan's law school admissions process. The Court upheld the constitutionality of narrowly tailored race-conscious affirmative ...