The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Brief of General Motors Corporation as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents in Gratz v. Bollinger

Legal Brief - February 18, 2003 -

• It is in the nation's interest to allow universities and colleges to select a racially and ethnically diverse class so that they may compete in a global economy
  
• The future of American business, and in some measure, the American economy rests on the need for diverse classrooms
  
• The elimination of affirmative action will likely deprive businesses of well-trained minority candidates who are essential to the nation's economic success