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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, 2004
After being accused of sexually harassing a student, a high school math teacher in New York was suspended with pay pending an impartial hearing. The district allowed the teacher to return to his classroom to collect his personal effects, which he had kept in boxes, desk drawers, and three filing cabinets, one of which was locked. He did not…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Constitutional Law, High School Teachers, Search and Seizure
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
This analysis of a November 2001 case in Botetourt County, Virginia, looks at whether the Fourth Amendment right against an unreasonable "seizure" or the 14th Amendment "liberty" for parents to control the care and custody of their children requires a ban on, or at least immediate notification regarding, detentions of a…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Constitutional Law, Student Rights, Parent Rights
