US Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland school admissions and home distillation ban cases

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases: a lawsuit against the lottery-based admissions policy at four elite middle schools in Maryland, and the constitutionality of an old federal ban on home distilling of liquor. The first case concerns race in school admissions after the court ended affirmative action in university admissions.

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• The court has agreed to hear a revived lawsuit challenging the lottery-based admissions policy at four elite middle schools in one of Maryland's counties.

  «agreed on Monday to consider reviving a lawsuit against a Maryland county's lottery admissions policy for four elite public middle schools»

  Reuters on MSN
• The court will consider the constitutionality of a roughly 160-year-old federal ban on distilling liquor at home.

  «will consider the constitutionality of a nearly 160-year-old federal ban on distilling liquor at home»

  Yahoo
• The Associated Press described the ban as dating from the Reconstruction era and covering the distilling of spirits in private homes.

  «The Supreme Court has agreed to review a Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes.»

  Associated Press News
• CNN covered the case through the story of John Ream, who began brewing beer at home nearly two decades ago.

  «When John Ream got into brewing beer at home nearly two decades ago»

  CNN on MSN

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