Having persuaded t he Supreme Court to strike down race-conscious undergraduate admission policies at the University of Michigan, lawyers for the plaintiffs are now asking a lower court to force the university to pay damages to thousands of white and Asian-American applicants who were rejected. The motion, filed in U.S. District Court, asks, in part, that the university refund the $40 application fee paid by the approximately 30,000 applicants turned away from 1995-2003. If granted, the request would cost the university about $1.2 million.