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    This document provides a decision tree for determining the legality of an affirmative action plan. It asks a series of yes or no questions about the plan's history of discrimination, beneficiaries, population goals, impact on nonminorities, and time limits. Depending on the answers, it directs the user to Supreme Court cases that set legal precedents for whether the plan would be found legal or illegal.

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    This document provides a decision tree for determining the legality of an affirmative action plan. It asks a series of yes or no questions about the plan's history of discrimination, beneficiaries, population goals, impact on nonminorities, and time limits. Depending on the answers, it directs the user to Supreme Court cases that set legal precedents for whether the plan would be found legal or illegal.

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    Was there

    history of Plan is illegal


    discrimination? no

    City of Richmond v. Croson Company


    (1989)
    Jurgens v. Thomas (1982)
    yes

    Does plan
    benefit only people
    Plan is probably legal
    who were actual victims
    yes
    of discrimination?

    no Firefighters v. Cleveland (1986)

    What
    population
    was used to establish Plan is illegal
    Area
    goals?
    populations Wards Cove v. Antonio (1989)
    Janowiak v. City of South Bend
    Qualified (1987)
    workforce

    Did
    affirmative action
    method trammel rights of Plan is illegal
    nonminorities? yes
    Firefighters v. Stotts (1984)
    Williams v. New Orleans (1984)
    University of California v. Bakke
    no
    (1978)
    Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
    Is
    there an
    ending point to Plan is illegal
    the plan? no

    yes

    Figure 3.4 Plan is legal

    Determining the Long v. City of Saginaw (1988)


    Johnson v. Santa Clara (1987)
    Higgins v. City of Vallejo (1987)
    Ledoux v. District of Columbia (1987)
    legality of an U.S. v. Phillip Paradise (1987)
    Youngblood v. Dalzell (1986)
    Smith v. Harvey (1986)
    Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education (1986)
    affirmative action Steel Workers v. Weber (1979) Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)

    plan

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