Richmond V. Croson Case Summary
C.Richmond v. Croson(1989)
D.The case deals with the city Council of Richmond passing a law that made is so companies that had construction contracts with the city had to subcontract at least 30 percent of their business to a business that has minority ownership. This lead to the J.A. Croson Company losing a contract because the company does not have a minority owner. This lead to the company starting a suit against Richmond.
E. Is the law passed by Richmond breaching the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause.
F.The court ruled that yes the law breached the fourteenth amendment because it set a quota for minorities which does not give an equal chance for non minority owned business. The court later went on to say that making up for past discrimination …show more content…
Seattle School District(2007)
D.This case deals with the Seattle school district lets kids choose which high school they want to go to and when too many student wish to attend a certain high school then the district uses a set of factors to use. The problem with this is the second highest factor used was based off of race. This lead to parents from the district suing the district claiming that the tiebreaker for race breached the fourteenth amendment.
E. Are high schools allowed to use race as a tiebreaker to admit certain students and if students are allowed to choose what school they want and hen are denied by race and another kid is allowed does that breach the fourteenth amendment?
F.The court narrowly ruled that the race tiebreaker did in fact breach the fourteenth amendment and that in higher education race can be a small factor but not only should it not be a factor in high schools but it was a very large part of the tiebreaker where it is supposed to be a small factor.
G.This case is significant because it reinforced the precedent that race if a factor has to be a small factor and it also decided the in lower education race should not be a factor in deciding who can go to what
D.The case deals with the city Council of Richmond passing a law that made is so companies that had construction contracts with the city had to subcontract at least 30 percent of their business to a business that has minority ownership. This lead to the J.A. Croson Company losing a contract because the company does not have a minority owner. This lead to the company starting a suit against Richmond.
E. Is the law passed by Richmond breaching the fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause.
F.The court ruled that yes the law breached the fourteenth amendment because it set a quota for minorities which does not give an equal chance for non minority owned business. The court later went on to say that making up for past discrimination …show more content…
Seattle School District(2007)
D.This case deals with the Seattle school district lets kids choose which high school they want to go to and when too many student wish to attend a certain high school then the district uses a set of factors to use. The problem with this is the second highest factor used was based off of race. This lead to parents from the district suing the district claiming that the tiebreaker for race breached the fourteenth amendment.
E. Are high schools allowed to use race as a tiebreaker to admit certain students and if students are allowed to choose what school they want and hen are denied by race and another kid is allowed does that breach the fourteenth amendment?
F.The court narrowly ruled that the race tiebreaker did in fact breach the fourteenth amendment and that in higher education race can be a small factor but not only should it not be a factor in high schools but it was a very large part of the tiebreaker where it is supposed to be a small factor.
G.This case is significant because it reinforced the precedent that race if a factor has to be a small factor and it also decided the in lower education race should not be a factor in deciding who can go to what