During that year a Mississippi state commission said that the district had violated accreditation standards in 2001 by not having those librarians.

The Warren Court held that unequal legislative districts violated the Constitution.

The Court ruled that legislative districts drawn in "bizarre" shapes and designed to increased black representation can violate the constitutional rights of white voters to equal protection of the law.

Such districts, she said, violated the equal protection rights of white voters.

The Supreme Court in the early 1970's barred such "interdistrict" remedies in the absence of findings that the suburban districts themselves had violated the Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1994 that the district violated the Constitution's requirement of separation between religion and state.

The suit says the district also violated Mr. Mazile's Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection and to due process in determining misconduct.

Young asserted that the district never violated its policy of only using the remote-activation software to find missing laptops.

The lawsuit contended that the district unconstitutionally violated white voters' rights to equal protection under the law.

Each trip produced a resounding defeat for the state, with rulings that the district violated the constitutional separation of government and religion.