 In 2000, Federal Judge John Heyburn, after finding that the JCPS school system did not need to be under a court-ordered desegregation policy, ruled that race could not be used for student assignment placement in the JCPS school system in regard to their magnet school programs.In 2004, he ruled the same for the traditional schools, but allowed the regular public schools to use race as the admission requirement.It is this part that went before the US Supreme Court as the other two cases were not appealed by JCPS.