Key U.S. justice opposes use of race in school cases
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A justice who may cast the decisive vote on the closely divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sharply criticized using race to decide where students go to school.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge to a New York law banning the wearing of masks at public gatherings by a group claiming ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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The Kansas State Historical Society said Thursday it won't allow city officials to demolish the former all-white school that was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case.
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A state appeals court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by a boy who wanted to compete on his high school's girls' gymnastics team.
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On Monday, the court takes up cases from Seattle and Louisville on the role of race in school enrollment.
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The chief justice of the state Supreme Court refused Wednesday to remove himself from a case challenging the results of the presidential election.
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A former pupil loses his case in the first big US Supreme Court ruling on students' free speech rights in 20 years.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A state commission rebuked a northern California judge Wednesday for telling potential jurors that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased.    Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty, in cases in 1999 and 2000 involving black and Iranian defendants, told prospective jurors they should come up with some other reason to get off the jury if they had racial biases and couldn't admit them...
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The Supreme Court is expected to issue rulings Thursday, including one about the use of race to assign students to public schools.
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider dismissing a lawsuit seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the 1999 shooting of a letter carrier by a white supremacist.
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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 Supremes move right on the question of race. Liberal justices dissented passionately. But there may still be some room in the middle.
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In a decision of sweeping importance, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.
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Michael Jackson may consider a California district attorney an old enemy, but the court doesn&#39;t. The judge in Jackson&#39;s child-molestation case rejected arguments Thursday that Santa Barbara County DA Tom Sneddon was &quot;blinded by zeal.
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Democrats criticise a US Supreme Court ruling against racial quotas in schools, but advocacy groups are split.
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A landmark sex-equity law should protect people who report complaints of discrimination, the Supreme Court was told yesterday as it heard arguments in the case of an Alabama coach who was fired when he protested the unequal treatment of his girls&#39; high
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The Supreme Court is weighing a lawsuit brought by a school coach who says his firing violates Title IX.