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Kelly, Margie – 1979
The 1971 police search of a newspaper office led to the United States Supreme Court's "Zurcher v The Stanford Daily" decision that newspaper offices can permissibly be searched if it is believed that they contain materials that relate to an ongoing criminal investigation. This decision has been viewed by the press as an attack on First…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Speech, Journalism
Delon, Floyd G. – 1982
Directed at school officials, this paper describes selected civil cases filed against schools since 1976. Cases concerning handicapped students constitute most of such cases; those cited deal with discipline (S-1 v. Turlington) and appropriate residential placement (Hine v. Pitt County Board of Education) of a handicapped child. Discipline cases…
Descriptors: Administrators, Athletics, Court Litigation, Disabilities
Gittins, Naomi E., Ed.; And Others – 1986
This volume of seminar presentations covers a broad range of legal issues affecting public schools. The first chapter summarizes employee free speech developments since "Connick v. Myers" (1983), a United States Supreme Court decision upholding a district attorney's right to dismiss a transferred assistant for circulating a controversial…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Courts, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textWalenta, Brian T. – 1995
Focusing on current United States Supreme Court decisions affecting the searching of students in school, this report also briefly examines the evolution of the right to education and student freedom of speech. Regarding search and seizure, since 1985 the Court has maintained that school officials are not exempt from the restrictions of the Fourth…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Criminal Law, Discipline Policy
