Supreme Court Weighs Race in Public School Admissions
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Several hundred demonstrators, many of them college or high school students, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court early this morning to proclaim support for using skin color as a factor in admissions in order to maintain racially diverse public schools.
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Some of the major issues to be decided by the Supreme Court next year:
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By Bob Bernick Jr. Deseret Morning News  The Utah Supreme Court did all Utahns a great favor last Friday.  The high court made a quick ruling that will allow citizens to vote private-school tuition vouchers clearly up or down Nov. 6.
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The Supreme Court is weighing a lawsuit brought by a school coach who says his firing violates Title IX.
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The Supreme Court confronts whether race can be used in deciding where students to go to school on Monday, testing the willingness of President George W. Bush's two newest court appointees to overturn programs to foster racial diversity.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's new term   has cases on abortion, the environment and racial diversity in   schools, some of the country's most contentious social issues   for a court primed to shift sharply to the right by President   George W. Bush's conservative appointees.
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education. In the case, Roderick Jackson -- formerly a basketball coach at a public high school -- alleges that he was removed
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The Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether voter-identification laws unfairly keep poor people and minority groups from going to the polls.
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A U.S. appeals court agreed on  Tuesday to reconsider its decision barring Seattle schools from  using racial considerations to help balance the composition of  public high schools.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, concluding they relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, in a sharply worded pair of cases reflecting the deep legal and social divide over the issue of skin color and education.
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The Supreme Court considered Monday whether an almost all-white Texas jury unfairly convicted and sentenced a black man to death, the latest in a string of capital cases to reach the court from the state that executes more people than any other.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether voters can be required to show photo identification, a move that can limit participation of the elderly and poor in elections.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected integration plans in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race to assign students in limited circumstances.
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Justices' representing opposing factions on the court argued issues in front of student and national TV.
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Universities were encouraged yesterday to give preference to students from minority backgrounds in a scheme that could see working-class and ethnic minority applicants
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The nation's schools, which have become increasingly segregated in recent decades, are likely to become even more racially divided as a result of this week's Supreme Court decision curtailing the use of race in school integration plans, attorneys and educational experts said yesterday.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected integration plans in two major public school districts but left the door open for the limited use of race to achieve diversity