The Massachusetts attorney general’s office has filed for a full-court hearing of an appellate panel’s decision that struck down the Lynn district’s race-conscious student-transfer policy. The petition, filed Nov. 3, asks for a hearing by all the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. The attorney general’s office argued that a three-judge panel’s Oct. 20 decision inappropriately applied a pair of U.S. Supreme Court rulings guiding the use of race in college admissions.
A version of this article appeared in the November 17, 2004 edition of Education Week
