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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
In a California case involving a 16-year-old girl's possession of three knives on school grounds, both a trial and Ninth Circuit court affirmed the school vice-principal's right to search and discover these weapons while enforcing a no-smoking policy. The court lectured parents and lawyers for wasting the court's time--especially after a juvenile…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, High Schools, Misconceptions
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
By upholding a student's refusal to provide a urine sample, the Seventh Circuit Court correctly avoided further erosion of the Fourth Amendment's privacy principle. In "New Jersey v T.L.O." (1995), the U.S. Supreme Court shrunk the probable-cause standard to reasonable suspicion in the special context of public schools, retaining the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, High Schools, Privacy
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Discusses federal district court decision dismissing suit brought by three Texas high school students claiming that their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when police, at request of administrators, entered school and rounded up, handcuffed, and detained them and 11 other students who "hung out" with a student arrested…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, High Schools
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
In a case involving a swim-team student's mandatory pregnancy test and a varsity coach's mishandling of confidentiality, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals awarded the coach qualified immunity, while rejecting the student's Fourth and First Amendment claims. Discretion and legal counsel would have helped. (MLH)
Descriptors: Athletics, Confidentiality, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
