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State Attorney General Stops Ohio State’s Plans to Back Michigan

State Attorney General Stops Ohio State’s Plans to Back Michigan

COLUMBUS, Ohio

Attorney General Jim Petro has nixed plans by Ohio State University to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies.

Petro refused to sign the “friend of the court brief,” as required by state law. His office said in a letter to the university that the Michigan admissions policy is flawed.