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Practice Amounts: Group and Law

practice amounts: It says the student-run journals previously picked editors and articles based on merit alone but now consider race and sex, according to CTV. The lawsuits say the practice amounts to discrimination and demands that it be stopped. The group, called Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, filed a federal lawsuit against The Harvard Law Review on Saturday and a separate suit against The NYU Law Review on Sunday. The group's website says its membership is confidential. Harvard is separately being sued by a group that says its admissions policies discriminate against Asian-Americans. The group and the law journals did not immediately provide comment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.