School claims lawsuit is ‘moot’Young America’s Foundation, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin–Madison, challenging at least 20 taxpayer-funded scholarships and grants that contain race-based criteria. The Lawton Program notes that it is only available to “Black, Hispanic, Native American and Southeast Asians of Vietnamese, Cambodian or Laotian descent.” “For other scholarships, like the Department of Bacteriology Underrepresented Minority Undergraduate Student Scholarship, the racial requirement is in the title,” the lawsuit states. Second, she wants a similar declaration that “the statute under which the Lawton Program is administered is unconstitutional.” “WILL’s claim challenging UW-Madison’s compliance with the state statute that created the Lawton program was moot before it was even filed,” Drummond said.