SAINT PAUL, Minnesota (CN) — The Minnesota Supreme Court found Wednesday that massive racial imbalances in Twin Cities schools do not violate the state constitution’s guarantee of a “general and ...

Soon after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that segregated schools are "inherently unequal," many Negroes hoped that Northern de facto segregation caused by housing patterns would be ...

But the (lawsuit) alleges no facts that would support a finding that the formula is either … traceable to the de jure segregation that ended decades ago or … a result of intentional racial ...

After she stated that “we certainly have de jure segregation” (Harvard transcript 20:13-14), a suitably puzzled Justice Alito asked SFFA’s counsel whether he was “aware of de jure ...

He wrote that the plaintiffs did not meet a key legal test of showing that disparities among state universities were rooted in what is known as “de jure” segregation — segregation sanctioned ...

In the next year’s Milliken case, the court upheld an absurd distinction between segregation by law and segregation by custom (de jure versus de facto segregation) as if segregation by custom ...

Ruling: MN school segregation not unconstitutional unless lawmakers intended it The judges ruled in favor of the state defendants in the Cruz-Guzman school segregation lawsuit.

In the decades since, de jure segregation mandated by law has disappeared, but de facto segregation — what actually happens in practice — persists, and it continues to impact Black students today.

But the (lawsuit) alleges no facts that would support a finding that the formula is either … traceable to the de jure segregation that ended decades ago or … a result of intentional racial ...

In treating Northern so-called “de facto” segregation as distinct from Southern de jure segregation under Jim Crow, newspapers obscured the range of state policies including school zoning ...

An important issue in the case is whether state decisions are “traceable” to de jure segregation — segregation sanctioned by law.