Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin - Updated 02/22/13
Fisher v. UT Austin is the first federal challenge to the use of race as one of many factors in university admissions since the Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld an admissions policy at the University of Michigan Law School and broadly affirmed the important role diversity plays in education.
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