The Supreme Court Can Rectify a Mistake
A University of Texas case gives the Court an opportunity to revisit the badly flawed Grutter decision.
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Larry Purdy
Larry Purdy is an attorney in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota and one of the trial lawyers who represented the plaintiffs in the University of Michigan race preference admissions lawsuits decided by the United States Supreme Court in 2003 (Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz, et al. v. Bollinger). He is the author of Getting Under the Skin of "Diversity": Searching for the Color-Blind Ideal (Robert Lawrence Press, 2008). He received a B.S. in 1968 from the United States Naval Academy and a J.D. from William Mitchell College of Law in 1977.Articles by Larry Purdy
The Negative Side of Affirmative Action
A book by a Notre Dame professor repeats stale clichés about the use of racial preferences and ignores counter-arguments.