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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing another case on affirmative action. Read our complete Lawyers.com article on Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. A Michigan ballot initiative added language to the state constitution that banned consideration of race as a factor in public university admissions. The Supreme Court will consider whether this voter-approved ban violates the Constitution. Take our Lawyers.com poll and let us know what you think.

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a second higher education affirmative action case this term, even while a decision on the first is expected to be released imminently. The court announced on Monday that it would hear arguments in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action over whether states can ban racial preference policies in public university admissions. Last fall, the justices heard arguments in Fisher v. Texas on whether a state university could consider race as one …

A federal court this month threw out Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions, the latest volley in the nationwide debate over if and to what extent race can be considered when deciding who gets admitted to institutions of higher education. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio decided in an 8-7 vote that the affirmative action ban was in violation of the U.S. Constitution. A district court had previously upheld the ban, which could be appealed …

The United States Supreme Court Wednesday heard opinions about how race is used as a factor in admissions at a Texas university, in a case that has the potential to ban affirmative action from the college application process. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the court will decide whether Abigail Fisher was improperly denied admission to the Austin-based school because she is white. The court has a recent precedent to consider: The justices ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003 …