In this 1978 case, the Supreme Court invalidated a fixed affirmative-action quota system used at the medical school of the University of California at Davis. The suit was brought by Allan Bakke, a white applicant rejected while non-white applicants with lower test scores and grades were admitted. The Court held that the school’s setaside procedure, guaranteeing admission places to people from various minority groups, contravened federal anti-discrimination law. The five-to-four decision still permitted race to be used as a remedy for past discrimination when it is one of many factors for admission.