The Bakke Lawsuit, most commonly known as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, was a significant court case that shaped how Affirmative Action policies are practiced today. On June 28th, 1978, the US Supreme Court proclaimed Affirmative Action to be constitutional but prohibited the use of racial quotas. The University of California, Davis, as part of their Affirmative Action program, "had reserved 16 percent of its admission places for minority applicants." Allan Bakke, a white man who had been rejected admission twice to the university, filed a lawsuit against the school. Claiming that he was academically superior to many minority students who had been accepted, Bakke charged that he had faced "unfair 'reverse discrimination' on the basis of race, which he argued was contrary to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the equal protection clause of the US Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment" (“Bakke Decision”). The Supreme Court agreed that the university's use of racial quotas was unconstitutional and demanded that they admit Bakke.