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The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected a Michigan school district's appeal of lower-court rulings requiring it to remove a portrait of Jesus that had hung for 30 years in a high school's main corridor.

The High Court on May 1 declined without comment to review the case, Bloomingdale Public Schools v. Washegesic (Case No. 94-1383).

Both a federal district judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit had ruled in favor of a student who had challenged the display of Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" at Bloomingdale High School as an...