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Supreme Court Strikes At Affirmative Action
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| Last Edited | CBlock941 Jun 28, 2007 03:09pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| News Date | Thursday, June 28, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In a landmark decision that will affect school districts across the country, a deeply divided Supreme Court Thursday struck down plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle that assigned students to schools based partly on the color of their skin.
Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "The school districts have not carried their heavy burden of showing that the interest they seek to achieve justifies the extreme means they have chosen -- discriminating among individual students based on race by relying upon racial classifications in making school assignments."
But the Court falls short of saying that across the country race can never be taken into consideration. |
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