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Blow to Affirmative Action.
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1995
A Supreme Court ruling found that federal programs or policies based on race must meet a legal test of strict scrutiny, requiring the program to demonstrate a compelling government interest and be narrowly tailored. Legal experts suggest that few federal affirmative action programs currently meet the standard. (MSE)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Motion of the American Council on Education and the National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities for Leave to File Brief Amici Curiae and Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners. University of Texas, et al., Petitioners, v. Walter Camenisch, Respondent. In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1980. No. 80-317.
1980
The motion of the American Council of Education (ACE) and the National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities (NIICU) to reverse the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in The University of Texas vs. Walter Camenisch is presented. The decision had ordered the university to provide free interpreter services to Camenisch, a deaf…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Deafness, Educational Legislation
Tales of Two Cities: Canon Law and Constitutional Law at the Crossroads.
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Gaffney, Edward M., Jr. – Journal of College and University Law, 1999
Explores six court cases in which the court addressed the permissibility of aid to higher education under the federal constitution. While state court interpretations may shift because of "Ex Corde Ecclesiae," the Papal constitution on higher education, it is seen as unlikely that federal or state taxing authorities will revoke…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Church Related Colleges, College Administration, Constitutional Law
Supreme Court of the United States. Syllabus. Wheeler et al. v. Barrera et al. Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1974
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the Act) provides for federal funding of special programs for educationally deprived children in both public and private schools. Respondents, parents of children attending nonpublic schools in Kansas City, Mo., brought this class action, alleging that petitioner state school officials…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Aid
The Reassertion of Church Doctrine in American Higher Education: The Legal and Fiscal Implications of the "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" for Catholic Colleges and Universities in the United States.
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Alexander, F. King; Alexander, Klinton W. – Journal of Law and Education, 2000
The Pope called upon Roman Catholic institutions of higher learning to "make known their Catholic identity" by integrating Catholic teaching and discipline in all university activities. Religious institutions find themselves facing precarious legal challenges, where the constitutionality of government appropriations could be challenged,…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Catholic Educators, Church Related Colleges, Constitutional Law
Finance.
Rossmiller, Richard A. – 1981
The major issues surrounding the financing of schools cluster in three areas: the use of public money in private and parochial schools, the sources and allocation of public school funds, and the ability to raise school taxes. Although the number of cases dealing with religion declined, there were cases concerning the use of public money to provide…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Awakening the Slumbering Giant: Intergovernmental Relations and Federal Grant Law. An Information Report.
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington, DC. – 1980
Eight papers from a one-day conference for lawyers, judges, and policy-makers discuss the effects on intergovernmental relations of the emerging body of laws, regulations, and court decisions governing federal grants and their recipients. The expanding importance of federal grants, notes an introduction to the papers, has meant both less leeway…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Community Development, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation