About Hopwood
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), involved four white plaintiffs rejected from the University of Texas School of Law who successfully challenged the school’s admissions policy on equal protection grounds. For affirmative action reasons, the policy had included race as a factor. The 1996 decision in Hopwood ended all consideration of race in admissions to the Law School.
The Supreme Court overturned the Hopwood case in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), in which the Court upheld the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Michigan Law School.
In addition to the online information provided below, litigation materials from the Hopwood case have been compiled in printed volumes and are available for checkout - please see our online catalog for stack location and availability.
- Hopwood v. Texas timeline
- Pleadings in Hopwood v. Texas
- How affirmative action worked at the University of Texas School of Law
- Minority Enrollment in the Law School
- The Effects of Hopwood
- State population v. UT Law population
- UT Law leads nation in private initiatives for recruiting minority students
- Conclusions of Law from Hopwood v. Texas
- Specific Court findings in Hopwood v. Texas