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Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 1998
In DesRoches v Caprio, federal district court ruled in favor of Jim DesRoches who had decided not to consent to a search of his backpack for a pair of allegedly stolen sneakers. Judge Robert G. Doumar decided the need to find the stolen sneakers did not outweigh the students' privacy interest and offered guidelines about school searches for stolen…
Descriptors: Discipline, Due Process, Federal Courts, High Schools
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
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin – American School Board Journal, 2002
A federal case from Georgia about strip-searches of fifth-grade students for a missing $26 was appealed to the 11th Circuit Court. The 11th Circuit affirmed the district court that the strip searches were unconstitutional but that certain federal law rules shielded the school employees, a police officer, the school district, and the county from…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Legal Responsibility
