The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English.
The court voted 5-4 to send the Flores vs. Arizona case back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The instructions are to consider whether Arizona has complied with civil-rights law by improving both English-learner programs and K-12 education overall.
Scott Drake interviews Clint Bollick. He serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
The U.S. Supreme Court took a major step toward ending a 17-year legal battle Thursday, saying lower courts made a mistake by focusing too much on forcing Arizona to spend more money to help students who haven't yet learned to speak, read or write English. Scott Drake interviews Clint Bollick. He serves as the director of the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation at the Goldwater Institute
The court voted 5-4 to send the Flores vs. Arizona case back to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The instructions are to consider whether Arizona has complied with civil-rights law by improving both English-learner programs and K-12 education overall.
A legal battle over parking garages for upscale Phoenix Arizona shopping center CityNorth could trigger major changes in how cities work with private developers and in the longtime practice of awarding sales-tax subsidies to them.
A high court decision against a $97.4 million subsidy offered to CityNorth by Phoenix potentially could scuttle other deals, create liability for cities and change the equation on developers’ decisions on whether to build high- profile projects.
Clint Bollick, director of the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, said the group chose to challenge the CityNorth agreement because it was “the most egregious case of abuse we could find.”
Scott talks with Clint Bollick.