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Lyle Denniston Reporter
Posted Tue, November 1st, 2011 5:05 pm
The Supreme Court has asked the University of Texas to provide a reaction to the new challenge to its race-based affirmative action policy on college admissions. That request, noted yesterday on the Court’s docket for the case of Fisher v. University of Texas (docket 11-345), kept the case going even though university officials had simply avoided taking any action on it so far. (This blog posted this story when the case first reached the Court.)
Since the petition by rejected white applicant Abigail Noel Fisher was filed on September 15, numerous contacts with university officials and others close to the case seeking a reaction about their plans have met with cryptic responses. For example, the university’s president, William Powers Jr., responding to one of those queries through an aide on Oct. 25, re-released an earlier statement saying that “the UT legal team is reviewing the petition for certiorari and we will continue our very important defense of this case.” The aide commented on his own: “We are unable to comment on this case or our legal strategy while the litigation is still pending.”
Full Story: http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/11/affirmative-action-case-develops/
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