In 1987, the high court said temporary and narrowly tailored quota systems were allowed. The case stemmed from an affirmative action plan that imposed a promotion standard of one black for one white in the Alabama state police ranks. The quota was justified, justices ruled, because of the department's long and shameful record of delay and resistance to black employment opportunities.
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Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court decision regarding school prayer.It was the first major school prayer case decided by the Rehnquist Court. It ruled that schools may not sponsor clerics to conduct even non-denominational prayer.he Court followed a broad interpretation of the Establishment Clause that had been standard for decades at the nation's highest court, a reaffirmation of the principles of such landmark cases as Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) and Abington v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963).