October 11, 2002

Supreme Court Asked to Review Affirmative-Action Suit

By PETER SCHMIDT

The U.S. Supreme Court was asked last week to take up a lawsuit challenging the use of a race-conscious admissions policy for undergraduates at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, even though a lower federal court is still in the process of deciding the case.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs, two white former applicants to the university, petitioned the Supreme Court to take up the case, Gratz v. Bollinger, without waiting for a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth

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