In his earlier rulings, Judge Clark made the school board a defendant, along with the state, rather than a plaintiff.

It required that the school board impose the increase, rather than Judge Clark.

About $10 million of the protested taxes were paid in 1987, the year of the direct imposition ordered by Judge Clark.

The Republicans have tried to have Judge Clark removed from the case.

He called Judge Clark's ruling "a significant win for First Amendment rights."

For more than a decade until 1991, Judge Clark was an assistant attorney general for the state.

In his original ruling, Judge Clark said it was not his role to order the district to hold dances.

That idea was rejected by Judge Clark, but he ordered the state to help develop and carry out a voluntary interdistrict transfer program.

Those aspirations were thwarted by Judge Clark's decision to temporarily restrict the banks from taking part in any deal.

In February, Judge Clark ruled that the evidence should remain secret.