Missouri v. Jenkins limited the fiscal burdens and scope of judicially ordered remedies.

Evidence

In the wake of Milliken I, some district courts turned from reassigning students to mandating programs of educational improvements as the remedy for constitutional violations. However, the Supreme Court indicated in Missouri v. Jenkins (1995) that there were limits to the fiscal burdens that judges could impose on school districts and that the remedial programs they devised had to be tied to undoing the effects of unlawful segregation. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3035

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the course theme of judicial remediation versus judicial restraint, and to debates about courts’ institutional capacity to run school systems.