[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Tuesday in Fisher v. University of Texas [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether the court's decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause [Cornell LII backgrounder] of the Fourteenth Amendment, including Grutter v. Bollinger [opinion; JURIST symposium], permit the University of Texas at Austin's (UT) use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions. Petitioner Abigail Noel Fisher, a Caucasian student, was denied undergraduate admission to UT in 2008 and subsequently...

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