Supreme Court, 7-1, Orders Lower Court to Reconsider Texas Affirmative Action Case
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that lower courts did not apply a sufficiently high level of scrutiny to the University of Texas’s use of race in admissions decisions, sending the case back to one of those lower courts to be reconsidered.
The decision will most likely have few immediate implications for affirmative action programs around the country, including in Texas. But it may represent the start of a new wave of challenges to the use of race in admissions decisions.
In a 7-to-1 decision, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing the majority opinion, the court ruled that the lower court did not use a legal standard known as strict scrutiny to assess the university’s program.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/us/justices-halt-affirmative-action-at-university-of-texas.html?emc=edit_na_20130624
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