/ ˈbæki dɪsɪʒn; NAmE / noun
an important decision made by the US Supreme Court in 1978. A white man called Allan Bakke claimed that he had been illegally refused a place to study at medical school because black students with worse marks / grades were accepted. The Court decided that he should have been accepted, but that it is not wrong to consider a person's race when deciding whether to accept them.
—see also positive discrimination
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