ERIC Number: EJ560878
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
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The Right Stuff.
Zirkel, Perry A.
Phi Delta Kappan, v79 n6 p475-76 Feb 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 court judge had suppressed the evidence and dismissed all charges. (MLH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, High Schools, Misconceptions, Search and Seizure, Student Rights, Weapons
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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