JUDGE DISALLOWS RACIAL POLICY AT LAW SCHOOL

From: The Columbian | Date: March 28, 2001| Author: JOSEPH ALTMAN Jr., Associated Press | Copyright information


The Columbian

03-28-2001

DETROIT -- Dealing another setback to affirmative action, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the use of race in admissions at the University of Michigan law school is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman, in a case closely watched by educators across the country, acknowledged there is a "long and tragic history of race discrimination in this country."
But he said the law school's goal of achieving a racial...