Amicus Briefs Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court
in Grutter v. Bollinger (Law School Lawsuit)

Summary of Arguments in Amicus Briefs—Grutter

Amicus briefs filed IN SUPPORT OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN:
updated April 4, 2003

• 13,922 Current Law Students (684K .pdf)*
  
  
• 3M, et al. (Fortune 500 Corporations) (136K .pdf)*
  
  
• American Bar Association (192K (.pdf)*
  
  
• American Educational Research Association, et al. (200K .pdf)*
  
  
• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) (352K .pdf)*
  
  
• American Jewish Committee, et al. (116K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• American Law Deans Association (216K .pdf)*
  
  
• American Psychological Association (220K .pdf)*
  
  
• American Sociological Association, et al. (244K .pdf)*
  
  
• Amherst College, et al. (1.3M .pdf)*
  
  
• Arizona State University College of Law (68K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• Association of American Law Schools (332K .pdf)*
  
  
• Association of American Medical Colleges, et al. (408K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• Bay Mills Indian Community, et al. (216K .pdf)*
  
  
• Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr., et al.
  (Retired Military Leaders) (212K .pdf)*
  
  
• Black Law School Graduates Committee (1M .pdf)*
  
  
• Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago (204K .pdf)*
  
  
• Boston Bar Association, et al. (76K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon University and 37 Fellow Private Colleges and Universities (308K .pdf)*
  
  
• Cities of Philadelphia and Cleveland, and the National Conference of Black Mayors (176K .pdf)*
  
  
• Clinical Legal Education Association (192K .pdf)*
  
  
• Coalition for Economic Equity, et al. (236K .pdf)*
  
  
• Columbia University, et al. (120K .pdf)*
  
  
• John Conyers and Other Members of Congress (332K .pdf)*
  
  
• General Motors Corporation (204K .pdf)*
  
  
• Rep. Richard A. Gephardt, et al. (3.8M .pdf)*
  
  
• Graduate Management Admission Council and the Executive Leadership Council (492K .pdf)*
  
  
• Harvard, Stanford and Yale Black Law Students Associations (348K .pdf)*
  
  
• Harvard University, et al. (464K .pdf)*
  
  
• Hayden Family (1M .pdf)*
  
  
• Hispanic National Bar Association and Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (228K .pdf)*
  
  
• Howard University (116K .pdf)*
  
  
• Howard University Law Students (120K .pdf)*
  
  
• Human Rights Advocates and University of Minnesota Human Rights Center (172K .pdf)*
  
  
• Indiana University (612K .pdf)*
  
  
• King County Bar Association, et al. (152K .pdf)*
  
  
• Law School Admission Council (80K .pdf)*
  
  
• Law School Deans (136K .pdf)*
  
  
• Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (984K .pdf)*
  
  
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (828K .pdf)*
  
  
• MTV Networks (1.5M .pdf)*
  
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy, et al. (156K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• Media Companies (60K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• Michigan Black Law Alumni Society (2.7M .pdf)*
  
  
• Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (2.2M .pdf)*
  
  
• NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union (2.3M .pdf)*
  
  
• National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), et al. (184K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) (292K .pdf)*
  
  
• National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), et al. (92K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• National School Boards Association, et al. (156K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• National Urban League, et al. (248K .pdf)*
  
  
• NEA, its state affiliates, AFSCME and People For the American Way (356K .pdf)*
  
  
• New America Alliance (104K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association, et al. (540K .pdf)*
  
  
• New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, et al. (3.1M .pdf)*
  
  
• New York State Black & Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus (3.2M .pdf)*
  
  
• NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al. (5M .pdf)*
  
  
• Pennsylvania General Assembly Members, et al. (2.9M .pdf)*
  
  
• Senators Thomas A. Daschle, et al. (2.1M .pdf)*
  
  
• Social Scientists Glenn C. Loury, et al. (92K .pdf)*
  
  
• Society of American Law Teachers (152K .pdf)*
  
  
• State of Maryland, et al. (including 21 states and the Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands) (684K .pdf)*
  
  
• State of New Jersey (108K .pdf)*
  
  
• United Negro College Fund and Kappa Alpha Psi (256K .pdf)
  
  
• UCLA School of Law Students of Color (128K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• University of Michigan Law Student Associations (548K .pdf)*
  
  
• University of North Carolina School of Law (108K MSWord .doc)**
  
  
• University of Pittsburgh, et al. (2M .pdf)*
  
  
• Veterans of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, et al. (92K MSWord .doc)**
  
  

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