Offers a midterm report on United States Supreme Court Cases. The cases dealt with voting rights, affirmative action, jury bias, the handicapped status of AIDS victims, religious holidays for teachers, and political spending of nonprofit corporations. (JDH)

Public officials are required to prove actual malice before they can win damages in libel actions. Reviews the Supreme Court's decisions regarding public persons and teachers and lower courts' conflicting rulings that teachers are public officials and that teachers are not public officials. (MLF)

A content analysis of 153 Federal court cases charging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act showed that 57 percent were brought on behalf of white males in professional and managerial occupations; women were more successful plaintiffs; and employers won nearly two out of three cases. (Author/SK)

Examines the effects of a court-ordered school desegregation plan on neighborhood housing markets in Dallas, Texas, using three market indicators: price, housing turnover, and utilization of conventional credit. Finds no significant effects on these indicators in any of the five neighborhoods studied. (Author/CMG)

The good-faith requirement in school desegregation was initially discussed by the United States Supreme Court in "Brown II." However, it was not until recently, in "Freeman v. Pitts," that the Court was to provide a definitive statement as to the meaning of the requirement, indicate the need for specific findings with respect…

The Supreme Court opinion of June 2002 in "Zelman et al. versus Simmons-Harris et al." is reviewed in this paper. In the first section, an interpretation of the ruling is offered in terms of four evaluative criteria: freedom of choice, productive efficiency, equity, and social cohesion. Unsurprisingly, the opinion strongly emphasized…

Discusses cases involving the application of the Bill of Rights of the Federal Constitution to State laws relating to untenured teachers. (JF)

Discusses U. S. Justice Department role in school desegregation cases in Florida and North Carolina. (KJ)

The impact of appointing presidents on the economic policy decisions of their district judge appointees is discussed. Voting patterns of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon judicial cohorts are examined. Significant differences are found among all four cohorts; the variance, however, is accounted for by the conservatism of the Nixon…

Examines issues under three categories: strategies and plans for desegregation in rural school districts and small towns; the complexity of policy making in Memphis, Chattanooga, and Nashville school districts; and the record of federal courts in Tennessee. (RH)

Notes that although it has been cited in numerous cases, state and federal courts have been reluctant to adopt the neutral reporting doctrine since its announcement in 1977. (FL)

Analyzes the pros and cons of increasing the coverage of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act to persons of up to 70 years of age. Available from Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, CA 90265. (Author/IRT)

Asserts that (1) the judicial branch of the federal government should involve itself less in the lives of the citizenry except in the area of equal rights for disadvantaged minorities; and (2) to accurately judge effects of alleged discrimination, one must know who is the victim and to what class he belongs. (Author/GC)

While still leaving some questions unanswered, the guidelines provided in the "Weber" case have clearly helped to clarify the legal status of race-conscious employee selection procedures. (Author/IRT)