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Supreme Court Takes New Look At Affirmative Action

WASHINGTON (WWJ/AP) -  The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas.

The court said Tuesday it will return to the issue of affirmative action in higher education for the first time since its 2003 decision endorsing the use of race as a factor in admissions.

The court's decision in the new case holds the potential to undo an accommodation reached in the Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision in Grutter vs. Bollinger in 2003 that upheld racial considerations in university admissions at the University of Michigan law school.

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