Seems the Obama administration has been involved in keeping cases away from the Supreme Court so race based political considerations founded originally on bad laws won't end up being judged as such.

"The Mount Holly township council voted on Wednesday to settle a
closely watched housing discrimination lawsuit, less than a month before
scheduled arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on the case that
could have limited claims...marks the second time in two
years that civil rights advocates and others have worked to keep a
housing-discrimination case away from a Supreme Court.... The 30-acre (12-hectare) parcel of land,
known as the Gardens, had been a problem for many years because of high
crime rates, poor maintenance, heavy concentration of rental units,
overcrowding, and building code violations.... The Obama administration had
asked the court not to take the Mount Holly case, just as it had asked
the court not to take another housing discrimination case, which
involved a dispute between landlords and the city of St. Paul,
Minnesota. The court agreed to
hear the St. Paul case so the Obama administration and civil rights
groups urged St. Paul to drop its appeal, which the city did in February
2012, just weeks before oral arguments were to take place before the
high court."