News in Brief: A Washington Roundup

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear an appeal from two parents who argued that a Wisconsin school district violated their son's constitutional rights when they refused him permission to distribute a flier about a church youth meeting.

Ronald and Ann Muller of Racine, Wis., had argued in their lawsuit that the principal at their son's elementary school denied permission for the flier because its subject was religious.

But the district said permission was denied because the invitation to the church meeting was not school-supported or...