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	<description>&#34;Race has no place in American Life or Law&#34;</description>
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		<title>Jerry Brown Still Opposes Prop. 209</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The battle to overturn racial neutrality in California&#8217;s government continues. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a federal court will consider a challenge to Proposition 209, a voter-approved law that bars the government from granting preferences to or discriminating against individuals or groups based on race in education, employment, and contracting. And Governor Jerry Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lee Bollinger on Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/17/lee-bollinger-on-fisher-v-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Bollinger, former president of the University of Michigan and defendant in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, penned an op-ed for the Washington Post. He still supports racial preferences. (Surprise!) Bollinger quotes a letter George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton about points he should have raised in his Farewell Address&#8211;education and the university&#8211;to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey Supremes, Take the Fisher Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are some racial preferences opponents eager for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit racial preferences? I want the court to hear Fisher v. Texas to determine how states have applied eight-year-old Grutter v. Bollinger, the case that allows taxpayer-supported schools to use race as a &#8220;plus&#8221; factor in admissions. Although schools must consider race-neutral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Purdy on Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2012/01/09/larry-purdy-on-fisher-v-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Larry Purdy was trial counsel for plaintiffs Barbara Grutter and Jennifer Gratz in racial preferences cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. He also wrote a book titled Getting Under the Skin of &#8220;Diversity&#8221;: Searching for the Color-Blind Ideal, in which he offered a rebuttal to The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Takes Action in Fisher v. Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/11/02/supreme-court-takes-action-in-fisher-v-texas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll recall that the plaintiffs in Fisher v. Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a race-based admissions policy at the University of Texas (UT). The plaintiffs contend the school discriminated against them on the basis of race. Yesterday, the SCOTUSblog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Classroom Diversity&#8217; and Racial Preferences</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/10/27/classroom-diversity-and-racial-preferences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/10/27/classroom-diversity-and-racial-preferences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fisher v. Texas is a hot topic. Eight years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court thought it had settled the &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; matter for at least 25 years. The court&#8217;s muddled decision in Grutter v. Bollinger sent mixed signals, however, and race is used as more than a &#8220;plus&#8221; factor in college and university admissions. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mismatch&#8217; and Racial Preferences</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/10/26/mismatch-and-racial-preferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Whelan at National Review writes about Fisher v. Texas, the &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. He cites research reported in two amicus briefs submitted by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights members Gail Heriot, Peter Kirsanow, and Todd Gaziano (emphasis in original): &#8220;It is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Affirmative Action&#8217; Waiting Game</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/10/04/affirmative-action-waiting-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/10/04/affirmative-action-waiting-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court could decide, once and for all, whether the government can continuing treating individuals differently based on race. From CNN: COLLEGE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary v. Regents of the University of Michigan; Fisher v. University of Texas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Fisher v. Texas Heading to Supreme Court?</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/09/20/is-fisher-v-texas-heading-to-supreme-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/09/20/is-fisher-v-texas-heading-to-supreme-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lbarber</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the plaintiffs in Fisher v. Texas (UT) asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their racial discrimination case. Abigail Fisher contends that UT rejected her on the basis of race. You may recall that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld UT&#8217;s race-based admissions. Eight years ago, the court upheld [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court to Rehear Michigan Racial Preferences Case</title>
		<link>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/09/11/court-to-rehear-michigan-racial-preferences-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acri.org/blog/2011/09/11/court-to-rehear-michigan-racial-preferences-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit struck down a voter-approved law in Michigan that barred the government from considering race in employment, contracting, and education. The panel illogically contended that banning racial discrimination was racially discriminatory. Bill Schuette, the state&#8217;s attorney general, asked the full court [...]]]></description>
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