Supreme Court Punts

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Inside Higher Education:  "The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have to say why it takes some appeals and skips others. Those decisions are typically announced simply with a list of cases that will be considered. But legal experts note that one category of case the justices tend to take is a dispute in which the federal appeals courts are coming up with different approaches to the same issue. And for that reason, many advocates for Christian students and advocates for gay students had expected that the Supreme Court this week would agree to resolve a legal dispute involving the anti-bias policies of many public colleges and Christian student groups that want the right to ignore parts of those policies."  Read Article >>