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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit targeting Texas A&M, claiming a faculty fellowship program discriminated against white and Asian men. The decision released Friday noted that a recently-passed Senate bill bans public universities in Texas from considering race or other characteristics beyond merit in hiring. That law, the judge wrote, renders the lawsuit "moot and no longer ripe for a claim." A white finance professor at the University of Texas at Austin brought the lawsuit.