US Says Justices Should Skip on Charter School Skirt Rule Case

The US Supreme Court should decline to hear a North Carolina charter school’s argument that its rule requiring female students to wear skirts, jumpers, or skorts wasn’t unconstitutional state action, US Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar said.

The federal government offered its view on Charter Day School’s petition for high court review at the invitation of the justices. The case was properly decided by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, doesn’t involve a legal question on which the federal circuits are split, and otherwise makes a “poor vehicle” for Supreme Court review, the government said Monday in ...