Order Barring Race in Admissions Stayed
A federal appeals court put on hold a judge’s order that the University of Michigan law school stop using race as a factor in its admission policy.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Detroit said the order is disrupting the selection of the law school class.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman struck down a nine-year-old affirmative action policy and then denied a request from Michigan to stay his order while the university appeals.
Hundreds of offers of admission have already been made for the 2001-02 academic year and several thousand applications are pending.
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