Summarize the various supreme court rulings on affirmative action both inside and outside the educational sphere

Explanation:Marco DeFunis Jr. v. Odegaard

Marco DeFunis, a white man, argued that he was denied admission to the University of Washington Law School because the school had prioritized admitting minority students who were less qualified, saying that this violated the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. He sued a state education official as well as the school's admissions committee, and successfully gained admission to the school. By the time the United States Supreme Court considered the case, DeFunis was already in his last year of law school and the court ruled that the case was moot. Though the court chose not to address the issues within the case, it was the first case heard on affirmative action since the policy was established in the 1960s.