The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Civil rights group cheered last year when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a housing discrimination case in Texas to move forward. But a federal district judge late Friday threw the suit out.
The nation’s high court last year agreed with the Dallas-based Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) that Texas doled out tax credits in Dallas in a way that packed minorities into poor neighborhoods and spared white neighborhoods from development of low-income housing.
But the U.S. Supreme Court left to up to a lower district court to decide if Texas could be held liable for reinforcing segregated housing.
U-S District Judge Sidney Fitzwater said no. Among other factors, the state had to use a specific policy to discriminate, and ICP couldn’t prove the state had such a policy.
Other stories this morning:
- The streetcar extension from downtown Dallas into the Bishop Arts District officially opens today. The free streetcars will run every 20 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week between Bishop Arts and downtown's Union Station.
- In this edition of Vital Signs, we dig into unstable vital signs like low blood pressure or elevated heart rate. A new study found 20 percent of hospital patients had one or more unstable vital signs when they’re released within 24 hours of discharge.
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