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By Daniel Wiessner

Jan 10 (Reuters) -

A suit filed Tuesday accuses six state-run aesculapian schools successful Texas of violating national anti-discrimination laws by giving preferences to pistillate and non-Asian number applicants.

The suit by George Stewart, a achromatic antheral who was denied admittance to the schools, is the latest situation to affirmative enactment policies that are commonly utilized by U.S. schools to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and pistillate students.

The U.S. Supreme Court's blimpish bulk successful October seemed skeptical of the legality of race-conscious admissions policies successful cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.

The University of Texas and Texas Tech University, which run the schools named successful the caller lawsuit, did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

Stewart's suit successful Lubbock, Texas, national tribunal was filed by blimpish radical America First Legal (AFL) and Jonathan Mitchell, a erstwhile Texas solicitor wide who represents assorted blimpish causes. AFL was formed by Stephen Miller, who was a apical adjutant to Republican erstwhile President Donald Trump.

According to the lawsuit, Stewart successful 2021 obtained enrollment information for the six schools aft helium was denied admission.

Stewart alleged that the information revealed that Black, Hispanic and pistillate students astatine the schools had importantly little grade-point averages oregon trial scores than white, Asian and antheral students. Stewart said successful the ailment that the information showed that the schools gave preferences to pistillate and non-Asian number applicants.

Stewart accused the schools of violating national laws prohibiting contention and enactment favoritism successful federally funded acquisition programs.

AFL successful September filed a suit accusing Texas A&M University of violating the aforesaid laws by adopting policies designed to diversify its faculty, specified arsenic mounting speech funds to supplement the salaries of number module members. The schoolhouse has denied wrongdoing.

(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner successful Albany, New York; Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Lisa Shumaker)