On June 28, 1978, the Supreme Court issued its much anticipated ruling in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Allan Bakke, a white male, claimed that he was discriminated against by the medical school at the University of California at Davis (UC-Davis) because of his race. The celebrated case marked the Court's first full-scale effort to address the legality of publicly promulgated affirmative action programs, in this instance in the context of admissions processes at a professional school. More than a decade later, on July 3, 1989, the Court issued its decision in the similarly anticipated case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, dealing with the constitutionality of several provisions of a Missouri law that regulated and restricted a woman's right to obtain an abortion. This time the Court was not working on a clean slate, however, since it had revisited the issue of abortion rights many times in the wake of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973 overturning a Texas antiabortion statute.