From Bakke to Fisher, evolution of affirmative action cases

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When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years.

FILE - Abigail Fisher, right, who sued the University of Texas, walks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Oct. 10, 2012. Fisher, who is white, sued after being rejected in 2008 from the University of Texas at Austin. She argued the university's policy discriminated against her because of race, in violation of the Constitution. again Monday — the second time in six years — but with the conservative majority now generally expected to end the use of race in higher education admissions.

During arguments Monday in cases involving North Carolina and Harvard, those names may be used as shorthand for the cases they represent. But real people are behind them.

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