Lawsuits against the University of California over it racial admissions policy for its law and medical schools.

Article describing how Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg supported a racial quota plan when she was on the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal. (July 13, 1993)

Article discussing UCLA School of Law's racial admissions to the 1993 entering class. (January 10, 1995)

Letter (48 KB) from UCLA School of Law's Dean of Admissions, Michael Rappaport, to Allan J. Favish, saying that the requested information is "not available."

Letter to the editor responding to criticism of Favish's opinion. (March 10, 1995)

Letter to the editor responding to criticism of Favish's opinion. (October 17, 1995)

Article discussing Favish's consumer fraud lawsuit against The Regents of the University of California. (January 30, 1996)

Letter to the editor responding to Prof. Reginald Alleyne's support of racial preferences. (March 29, 1996)

Law review article entitled From Bakke, to the Regents' Vote, to the California Civil Rights Initiative and Hopwood (119 KB). You can download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader from my home page. This article describes and critically analyzes the history of UCLA School of Law's racial admissions system. A "law review" is a periodical published by a law school containing articles about various aspects of the law. This law review article is published in Volume 27 of the University of West Los Angeles Law Review (1996). Much of the volume is devoted to the topic of the California Civil Rights Initiative. This Law Review is available in all major law libraries. Copies of the bound volume can be obtained by contacting The University of West Los Angeles Law Review, 1155 West Arbor Vitae Street, Inglewood, CA  90301-2902. The Law Review's telephone number is (310) 342-5214.

Letter to the editor responding to a defense of racial college admissions. (May 24, 1996)

Article that 1) explains why the appellate court erred in holding that the consumer fraud law did not apply to the Regents, 2) explains why the state attorney general believes the holding is erroneous, and 3) invites the attorney general to formally support Favish's petition for review to the California Supreme Court. (July 24, 1996)

Unpublished article explaining how Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Braithwaite Burke distorted former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey's civil rights record in order to perpetuate race and sex preferences. (August 1996)

Letter to the editor responding to a statement by UC Berkeley's undergraduate admissions director Bob Laird. (September 3, 1996)

Letter to the editor responding to opponents of Proposition 209 (aka the CCRI) at California State University, Northridge, inviting David Duke to defend the initiative at a debate. (September 12, 1996)

Letter to the editor responding to Peter King's column in the Los Angeles Times about Proposition 209 (CCRI) and David Duke. (October 4, 1996)

Article entitled CCRI Restores King's Dream that appears in the 1996 edition of the Pat Brown Institute's journal entitled California Politics and Policy. The article rebuts Stanley Fish's 1995 op-ed that was published in the New York Times. (late 1996)

Article explaining one reason why Judge Thelton Henderson's decision granting a preliminary injunction against Proposition 209 was wrong. (December 31, 1996)

Letter to the editor explaining why Judge Thelton Henderson's ruling on Proposition 209 was wrong. (December 19, 1996)

Letter to the editor rebutting Earl Ofari Hutchinson's account of Martin Luther King's view of racial preferences for blacks. (January 17, 1997)

Article about the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in the Proposition 209 Case. (April 10, 1997)

The meaning of "affirmative action" and "discrimination."

The difference between a preference and a quota.

Race and sex preferences in California state law.

Comparison of the California Civil Rights Initiative with the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act.

Explanation about how the CCRI will not increase sexual discrimination against women.

A presidential civil rights quiz.

Martin Luther King Advocated Poverty Preferences, Not Racial Preferences

Appellate opinion rejecting CCRI opponents' distortion of the phrase "affirmative action"

Justice William Rehnquist's dissenting opinion in Steelworkers v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193, 61 L Ed 2d 480 (1979). The most comprehensive judicial presentation of the legislative history of the 1964 Civil Rights Act available for downloading in rich text format.

The official web site for the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) (aka Proposition 209).

The California Secretary of State's official ballot analysis and arguments for the CCRI (aka Proposition 209).

Books worth reading.