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Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Reviews the status of Supreme Court deliberations in questions surrounding a New Jersey school's search of a student's purse. The state courts found the search unreasonable and reversed a lower court decision. (MD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Search and Seizure
Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1985
A Supreme Court ruling of January 1985 reversed a New Jersey Supreme Court decision of March 1984, which found a student search violated the Fourth Amendment. The reversal by the Supreme Court leaves unanswered some important questions about school searches. (MD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Search and Seizure, Secondary Education, Student Rights
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1986
Detection of drug users at school is a problem complicated by recent New Jersey court cases upholding students' privacy rights against mandatory medical examinations and search-and-seizure actions. Requiring confidential medical screening by private physicians for sports and other extracurricular activities is an alternative strategy offering…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Discipline Policy, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education
