11.   But the court refuses to take a challenge to a Yonkers, N.Y. desegregation case.

12.   Changes in the law driven by a conservative U.S. Supreme Court and profound shifts in urban demographics are prompting school districts to end their old desegregation cases.

13.   Desegregation cases are ending and education priorities have changed.

14.   He handled a number of significant civil-rights and desegregation cases.

15.   Hatch noted that Democrat Jay Nixon, who succeeded Ashcroft, took virtually the same position on a critical St. Louis desegregation case as did Ashcroft.

16.   He indicated that the state might be filing a motion soon seeking a judgment from Clark that the state had met all of its obligations in the desegregation case.

17.   Jackson referred to a Kansas City school desegregation case and a Colorado minority preference contracting case during a forum on affirmative action held at the National Press Club.

18.   Kennedy demanded to know why Ashcroft refused to settle a long-running school desegregation case in Missouri, despite pleas from the courts there.

19.   Lower courts, they say, never imposed a test score standard as a prerequisite for ending a desegregation case.

20.   Michael Sussman who represented the NAACP in the desegregation case, said he hoped Greyston would expand its work to other sections of the city as well.