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U.S. Supreme Court filing compares UNC leaders to 1950s-era segregationists

A filing this month in the U.S. Supreme Court accuses University of North Carolina leaders of making the same types of arguments that segregationists made against the landmark 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education. The brief from Students for Fair Admissions marks the latest salvo in that group’s battle against UNC’s race-based admissions policy. The nation’s highest court will hear oral arguments in the case on Oct. 31.

CJ Staff
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States Deal With “Leandro” Issues

RALEIGH — In Kansas, the plaintiff was Montoy. In Connecticut, it was Sheff, and Brigham filed the complaint in Vermont. The Leandro lawsuit, in which the state Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina has a constitutional obligation to adequately fund education in its poorer counties, has had sibling cases in 44 other states. That is because almost every state in the union has a constitutional provision similar to North Carolina’s, which promises a “sound and basic education” for all its residents. All but five states have had litigation regarding their funding of K-12 education.

Paul Chesser

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