Lau v. Nichols (1974). This Supreme Court decision does not make bilingual education mandatory: "Teaching English to the students of Chinese ancestry who do not speak the language is one choice. Giving instructions to this group in Chinese is another. There may be others."

Meyer v. Nebraska (1923). Here the Supreme Court struck down an official English law because it was overbroad. The plaintiff taught in a "parochial school maintained by Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation."

Missouri v. Jenkins (1990). Even though the Kansas City school district "had exhausted all available means of raising additional revenue," a district court ordered the KCMSD property tax levy increased through the 1991-1992 fiscal year. The Supreme Court upheld this exercise of raw judicial power.

Missouri v. Jenkins (1995). Over $1 billion later, the district court was still unsatisfied and ordered salary assistance to all but three of the approximately 5,000 KCMSD employees. The total cost of this component of the desegregation remedy since 1987 is over $200 million. Finally, the Supreme Court reins in the district court.

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