Courts (was Re: Nathan is right)

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 14 14:19:57 PST 2000


It's virtually certain that affirmative action in public higher education is doomed. I cannot imagine the 6th Circuit coming out in favor of it. Even the normally liberal 1st Circuit rejected it.

--jks


>
>Whether union-busting or affirmative action or anything else, court
>battles have been mainly defensive, unable to generate solidarity
>beyond the individuals who are directly & immediately affected by the
>outcome. As it happens, if the University of Michigan loses the
>above lawsuits, affirmative action at the OSU, too, will go down, but
>most OSU faculty (even those who are ostensibly in favor of it) &
>students have shown very little willingness to fight in public to
>preserve it.
>
>Yoshie

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