The University of Texas at Austin filed this week its brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in its case against Abigail Fisher, who sued the school, arguing that she was denied undergraduate admission because she is white. Fisher is appealing a second time to the high court, having been ruled against twice by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Also returning to the Supreme Court are the daughter and nephews of Heman Sweatt. Some 65 years ago, Sweatt won a race discrimination case at the high court against UT School of Law, after the Texas institution of higher learning rejected him simply because he was black. This week, Sweatt’s relatives filed a friend of the court brief defending the university against Fisher’s discrimination claims, as they had previously done in the first round of Fisher v. UT.

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