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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
A complex case involving a disgruntled ex-employee's invasion of a college president's e-mail system resulted in a decision granting two plaintiffs' motions for summary judgment. This was the first recorded education-related collision on the electronic superhighway. Every educational institution should have a policy and procedure regarding what…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Dismissal (Personnel), Due Process, Electronic Mail
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, 2001
The 11th Circuit Court upheld a Georgia district's termination of an exemplary teacher who refused an immediate drug test after a police dog sniffed out a marijuana cigarette in her unlocked car. This case illustrates application of zero-tolerance policies to teachers and other personnel despite employees' signed contracts. (MLH)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Court Litigation, High Schools
