White lawyer sues state bar over minority rules
Aided by the same organization that sued the University of Texas over its race-sensitive admissions policy, a white Austin lawyer has sued to overturn a law requiring that four positions of the State Bar of Texas governing board be held by women and racial or ethnic minorities.
Filed Monday in federal court in Austin, the lawsuit by Greg Gegenheimer, a 38-year lawyer who focuses on family law, argues that the practice discriminates against white men in violation of the U.S. Constitution and federal anti-discrimination laws.
“For the last 40 years, numeric racial and gender quotas like those mandated by the Texas Bar have been struck down by the courts as unconstitutional,” said Edward Blum, president of the Project on Fair Representation, which provided the lawyers who researched and filed Gegenheimer’s lawsuit.
Blum’s Virginia-based organization also sponsored the lawsuit by Abigail Fisher, who unsuccessfully challenged a UT policy that weighed race as one of many factors in deciding which undergraduate applicants to admit to the school. The U.S. Supreme Court narrowly upheld the policy in June.
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