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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This appears to be a very old lawsuit about this issue:
http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/Unpublished/011583.U.pdf

Appeal affirming dismissal.
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Can you provide the title of this case?  I can't seem to access via the link.  [/quote]

Try searching Ethan Rosenfeld v. MCPS[/quote]

Thanks.  This case appears to be one of many around the same period (late 90s) with similar fact patterns -- some kind of magnet program or transfer policy that incorporated preferences or other mechanisms that ensured that minorities were admitted.  Another similar case was Eisenberg v. MCPS.  I'm not an attorney, but there's a long and varied case law in this area with many cases testing many different ways of ensuring diversity in academic admissions (to schools or special programs or transfers).  As I understand it, the law is pretty clear that race can not be the determinative factor in admissions.

In general, I think the education system community (public school systems and all universities) has moved on to other ways of trying to ensure diversity through use of other kinds of status markers that are proxies to some extent for race (by geography, by socioeconomic status, by "hardship", by guaranteeing admission for the top %age of a class, etc.) and also increased outreach to the target communities educating about special programs, encouraging applications, offering application assistance, and creating support networks for those who are admitted.  
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