For a quarter of a century, no vital legal and policy initiatives have been developed to counter this trend. The Clinton administration saw the greatest increase in discrimination and no steps were taken to reduce it. The Supreme Court, which took a decisive step in desegregating the educational sector in the 1950s, took no action to reduce desegregation during this period (Orfield 81). It has been about 60 years since a new law banned segregation activities, but it did not end segregation. Other court rulings that followed declared equal rights for all Americans. In the 1991 Dowell case, the court confirmed that the desegregation order enacted in the 1950s would not last forever, but that the situation would change. After desegregation orders based on the court's declaration were overturned in the 1990s, school districts were declared "unitary" and, therefore, free of all forms of discrimination (Orfield