The Chronicle of Higher Education

Lead Plaintiff Against Michigan Still Hopes for a Spot at Its Law School

By JONATHAN MARGULIES

Barbara Grutter is now at the center of the national debate over affirmative action. But in the days before the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would review her lawsuit against the University of Michigan Law School, the case was the last thing on her mind. One of her two children, after all, had a basketball game.

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