Michigan Universities Take Another Hit Over Quotas

[Annie]

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Michigan
U.S. panel rejects a delay for Prop 2

Affirmative action ban is upheld

December 30, 2006

BY NAOMI R. PATTON

FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A federal appeals court on Friday turned back a decision to let Michigan universities delay implementation of an affirmative action ban on their admissions policies.

In its order, a three-member panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati said it could find no "tenable basis under federal law for suspending the law's enforcement."

On Dec. 19, U.S. District Judge David Lawson in Detroit allowed an agreement between the governor, the attorney general and the universities that provided for the schools to continue their current admissions practices until July 1.

The University of Michigan, Michigan State and Wayne State universities argued that the ban's Dec. 22 effective date would hurt applicants for next year's entering classes who applied under a different set of rules.

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[William Joyce]

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[Annie]

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