Legal Education Opportunities: Hearing Before the Special Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 14673, to Amend Part D of Title IX of the Higher Education Act, Hearing Held in Washington, D.C., June 5, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 69 pages |
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admissions committee admissions policy admissions process admitted American Bar Association amicus curiae applicant's assistance average basis BENITEZ bill Brademas Chairman CHARLES ODEGAARD CLEO program college grades color CONGRESS THE LIBRARY considered Council on Legal criteria cultural Dean Bamberger DeFunis DELLENBACK disadvantaged students discrimination effort Equal Protection Clause ethnic factors Federal fellowship first-year funds gentleman from Oregon going graduate income issue law school admission law school grades law students lawyer Legal Education Opportunity legal profession legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LSAT LSAT scores minority applicants minority groups Mitchell MOORHEAD moot national origin O'HARA participation percent persons petitioner PFYA prediction problem proposed amendment question race racial SAUNDERS school admission test situation Special Programs stipend summer institutes Supreme Court test scores Thank tion title IX TRACEY University of Washington W. T. Grant Co Washington Supreme Court
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Page 30 - Clarence Mitchell, director of the Washington Bureau of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Page 41 - February of 1968, under the co-sponsorship of the Association of American Law Schools, the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, and the Law School Admission Test Council. Its initial undertaking was sponsorship of four summer training and evaluation institutes for disadvantaged students who desired to go to law school but were not admissible under ordinary criteria.
Page 43 - Administrator shall pay to persons awarded scholarships under this section such stipends (including such allowances for subsistence and other expenses for such persons and their dependents) as he may determine to be consistent with prevailing practices under comparable federally supported programs.
Page 59 - Moreover, in endeavoring to dispose of this case as moot, the Court clearly disserves the public interest. The constitutional issues which are avoided today concern vast numbers of people, organizations, and colleges and universities, as evidenced by the filing of twenty-six amicus curias briefs. Few constitutional questions in recent history have stirred as much debate, and they will not disappear.
Page 55 - The Equal Protection Clause commands the elimination of racial barriers, not their creation in order to satisfy our theory as to how society ought to be organized.
Page 12 - States or is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose and intends to become a permanent resident thereof...
Page 43 - Is maintaining satisfactory proficiency and devoting full time to study or research in the field in which such scholarship was awarded in an institution of higher education, and is not engaging in gainful employment other than employment approved by the Administrator by or pursuant to regulation.
Page 58 - Mere voluntary cessation of allegedly illegal conduct does not moot a case; if it did, the courts would be compelled to leave "[t]he defendant . . . free to return to his old ways.
Page 53 - A DeFunis who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that fact; nor is he subject to any disability, no matter what his race or color. Whatever his race, he had a constitutional right to have his application considered on its individual merits in a racially neutral manner.
Page 13 - Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, US Individual Income Tax Return, or such line identified as "adjusted gross income