This sub-page investigates and catalogs legislation related to affirmative action. It contains external links to House and Senate bills; to information and on-site newspaper articles about the recent ballot Proposition 209 in California; to the search engines for legal information on the web; and to various legal studies links.
Last revised June 20, 2002.

CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 209
CALIFORNIA CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE
PENDING FEDERAL ACTION
PENDING STATE CASES & BALLOT MEASURES
SUPREME COURT CASES: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS
PENALTIES FOR PRACTICING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 209

• Court Motion for Temporary Restraining Order on Prop. 209 (11/27/96)
• "Passage of Prop. 209 prompts executive order, 3 lawsuits" (Annie Nakao)
• "Prop. 209 backes, foes head for court" (Michelle Locke)
• "Prop 209 Passes, Battle Moves to the Courts"

CALIFORNIA CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE 

• California Civil Rights Initiative Homepage
• CCRI, Full Text of the Initiative

PENDING STATE CASES & BALLOT MEASURES

• Michigan: the University of Michigan announces that it is mounting an ambitious, research-based defense against two lawsuits that challenge its use of racial preferences in admissions. The university intends to show, through reports and testimony by a high-powered set of social scientists, that the educational value of racial diversity justifies giving a slight edge to black and Hispanic applicants as a way of increasing their presence on the Ann Arbor campus.
• Texas (local ballot measure):  In November 1997, voters in Houston approved a measure in favor of continuing the city's affirmative action policies.
  policies, 55% to 45%.
• Florida: Ward Connerly's group works with contractors in Florida to add a constitutional ammendment to the November 2000 ballot. Click here for overview.
• Washington: Modeled after California Proposition 209, Initiative 200, the Washington State Civil Rights Initiative, is likely to make it onto the November 1998 ballot.

  SUPREME COURT CASES: HISTORY AND ANALYSIS

• Tara Ragone, Affirmative Action in Higher Education (BA Honors Thesis; College of William and Mary, 1996)
• History of Affirmative Action (AAD Project)
• Laws Applying to Affirmative Action in Educational Institutions (NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
• David Chang, "Discriminatory Impact, Affirmative Action, and Innocent Victims: Judicial Conservatism or Conservative Judges?" (Columbia Law Review, May 1991)
• Gary Orfield, "Refurbishing a Rusted Dream" (March/April 1993)
• David Savage, "Race Matters: New cases return a volatile issue to the top of the Supreme Court's agenda"

PENALTIES FOR PRACTICING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

• S.1085: Equal Opportunity Act of 1995 - "Introduced by Bob Dole (R- Kansas) in the Senate and Charles Canady (R - Florida) in the House (H.2128), it would prohibit discrimination or preferences in Federal employment and contracting on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex, or entering into a consent decree requiring, authorizing, or permitting any such discrimination or preference."
• S.318: Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1995 - Introduced by Senator Jesse Helms, this bill seeks to make "preferential" hiring practices unlawful
• S.497: Act to End Unfair Preferential Treatment - Also sponsored by Sen. Helms
• EEO Laws and Regulations : From California State University at San Marcos web site.
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• Search full text of legislation - 104th (present) Congress
• Search full text of legislation - 103rd Congress
• Legal Studies links from the Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu)

• Link to the bibliographies for this site.

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