Appeals Court Allows Use of Race In Michigan Law School Admissions
In a case that could reverberate on college campuses nationwide—and possibly in K-12 classrooms—a sharply divided federal appeals court has backed the University of Michigan law school's right to use race as a factor in its admissions policy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, in Cincinnati, ruled 5-4 on May 14 that the law school had a "compelling interest" in seeking a diverse student enrollment and that its admissions process did not amount to racial quotas.
In its decision, the court applied the controlling opinion of Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. in the landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke , which upheld the consideration of race as one factor among...
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