Arizona, Alabama, et al., Amici Curiae
Paula S. Bickett, Counsel of Record
Arizona and Alabama are joined in this brief by Georgia, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Paula S. Bickett is an assistant attorney general for the State of Arizona and has served as chief counsel, civil appeals since 1999. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 1, 2013. This Court struck down a student assignment plan that relied on racial classification: “Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.” —…
