In case you are curious, the "case in the 1980s" referred to in the article is almost certainly Moore v. Regents of the University of California ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents_of_the_University_of_California" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents_of_the_Univers...</a> ).