A federal judge has ruled that an admissions policy used by the University of Georgia from 1990 to 1995 to grant preferences to black applicants was unconstitutional. The judge, in rejecting an argument championed by some groups that the system was needed to promote diversity, criticized the "stigmatizing, polarizing costs imposed by racial classifications."

The ruling, by U.S. District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield, has no practical impact...

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