Schmidt v. Oakland Unified School District

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• holding that it was an abuse of discretion under Gibbs not to assert pendent jurisdiction over dispositive state-law claims when doing so would have avoided reaching the issue of the constitutionality of an affirmative-action plan
• holding that it was an abuse of discretion under Gibbs not to assert pendent jurisdiction over dis-positive state-law claims when doing so would have avoided reaching the issue of the constitutionality of an affirmative-action plan
• reaching constitutional issue without resolving state law claim was, under the circumstances, an abuse of discretion
• upholding the constitutionality of a plan requiring a general contractor bidding on a school construction project to use minority owned businesses for at least 25% of the dollar amount of the total bid
• 25% goal acceptable in light of city's 34.5% non-white population; decision vacated for failure to reach merits of state statutory issue prior to deciding constitutional claim

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