<p>Suit targeting UT admissions denied:
A federal judge in Austin Monday tossed out a lawsuit filed last year challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s use of racial preferences in admissions.</p>
<p>U.S. District Court Judge Sam Sparks granted a summary judgment in favor of the school, which argued that its practices met legal requirements spelled out by the U.S. Supreme Court. Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, which represented Abigail Noel Fisher of Sugar Land and Rachel Michalewicz of Buda in the lawsuit, said Sparks’ decision will be appealed.</p>
<p>The lawsuit didn’t challenge the top 10 percent law, which guarantees admission to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of a Texas high school, but contended that UT-Austin unlawfully uses racial and ethnic criteria to select other students. (The top 10 percent law was modified this spring to cap the number of students admitted under the law at 75 percent of the freshman class, starting in 2011.)</p>
<p>Fisher and Michalewicz, both of whom are white, were denied admission to UT last fall; Fisher enrolled at Louisiana State University and Michalewicz enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Blum said.</p>
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