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Decisions on child pornography, busing, other thorny issues
Last week O'Connor also wrote a decision reaffirming the court's "heightened scrutiny" of sex discrimination cases; the opinion, which held that a state nursing school for women must admit men, was issued one day after the death of the ERA ratification drive. In another decision, the...
On Busing: Stop and Go. Busing opponents, who in the past have attempted everything from marching to electing like-minded school-board members, have more recently gone on to try passing statewide referenda. But after two rulings by the court last week, that device may have a limited future. Although...
The Washington dispute began in September 1978, when Seattle (pop. 493,000) became the largest U.S. city to bus students voluntarily for racial balance. Two months later 66% of the state's voters endorsed Initiative 350, which prohibited local school boards from requiring busing as a desegregation tool. Seattle...
Down in California, the case involved a Los Angeles busing plan ordered by a state court, not one adopted voluntarily as in Seattle. A 1979 antibusing referendum amended the state constitution to make it tougher for plaintiffs to win mandatory busing orders. California's constitution had required state judges...