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Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2003
In "Barrow" the 5th Circuit erected a very high burden of proof for school districts to show that policies requiring employees to live within the district are necessary to sustain public confidence in public schools. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Constitutional Law, Due Process, Enrollment
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1997
A case involving a strip-search of two second-grade girls in Talledega, Alabama, was dismissed with an eight-to-three vote by the 11th Circuit Court. The court issued an opinion on only one question in the case: whether the employees involved were entitled to "qualified immunity." Advises administrators to be cautious and permit strip…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts