 In Tompkins v. Alabama State University, 97-M-1482-S (N.D. Ala. 1998).lead plaintiff Jessie Tompkins filed this original action Pro Se, he was influence by "Hopwood v. Texas", 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir.1996), Hopwood was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke", 438 U.S. 265 (1978).The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama before Myron Herbert Thompson.