January 7, 2005

Federal Court Declines to Set New Limits on Affirmative Action

By PETER SCHMIDT

An advocacy group opposed to race-conscious college admissions has failed to persuade a federal appeals court to set new limits on the practice, in a case involving the University of Washington School of Law.

Last month a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the Center for Individual Rights' arguments that admissions policies previously used by the law school had placed so much emphasis on race that they did not comply with the U.S. Supreme

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