Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
... The first major Supreme Court case to deal with affirmative action was Regents of the University of California v. Bakke in 1978. In the early 1970’s the University of California at Davis’s Medical School created a dual admissions program designed to increase the amount of minorities or “disadvantaged” attending the school. ... Allan Bakke was a white male. ... After the second rejection, Bakke sued the University of California at Davis in the Superior Court of Yolo County, California. ... The Superior Court of Yolo County, California found that the special admissions program violated the federal and state constitutions. ... Bakke, however, still could not go to the school because he didn’t prove how he would have been accepted if the special admissions programs hadn’t existed. The University of California appealed the case to the Supreme Court of California which agreed that the admissions process was unconstitutional. It also decided that Bakke should be admitted because the University did not prove that he would not have been admitted if the special admissions program was not present. The Regents of the University of California appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Defendant in this case was the Regents of the University of California.