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Supreme Court decides Fisher v. University of Texas...again

Three years ago, the Supreme Court sent an affirmative action case involving college admissions back to a lower court and said "strict scrutiny" should be applied when examining the University of Texas's race-based policy. Well, the ambiguity of "strict scrutiny" led this week to round two in the case Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas.

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