Fisher v. University of Texas (2016)

Fisher v. University of Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 9, 2015 Decided June 23, 2016
Full case name	Abigail Noel Fisher, Petitioner v. University of Texas at Austin, et al.
Docket no.	14-981
Citations	579 U.S. 365 (more) 136 S. Ct. 2198; 195 L. Ed. 2d 511
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	See Fisher v. University of Texas (2013)
Holding
The race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner's application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. The judgement of the Fifth Circuit is affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor
Dissent	Thomas
Dissent	Alito, joined by Roberts, Thomas
Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV
Abrogated by
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina (2023)

Fisher v. University of Texas, 579 U.S. 365 (2016), also known as Fisher II (to distinguish it from the 2013 case),^[1][2][3][4] is a United States Supreme Court case which held that the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly found that the University of Texas at Austin's undergraduate admissions policy survived strict scrutiny, in accordance with Fisher v. University of Texas (2013), which ruled that strict scrutiny should be applied to determine the constitutionality of the University's race-conscious admissions policy.

The decision was overturned by Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) seven years later.