Judge Orders U. of Michigan to Pay Some Legal Fees in Affirmative-Action Case

The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor is still paying the bills from defending its race-conscious admissions policies.

A federal judge has ordered the university to pay some of the costs that three law firms incurred in their successful challenge of the policies used by the university's chief undergraduate program.

The three firms had sought a total of $2.07-million in compensation for their work on the case, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2003. But the judge, Patrick

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