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BAKKE DECISION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action; the Court ruled in 1978 that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
opinion; ruling (the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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