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Cambron-McCabe, Nelda H. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1982
Delineates recent legal developments in school district liability under Section 1983 of the U.S. Code (Civil Rights Act of 1871). Discusses municipal and school district immunity and concludes that districts are immune from punitive damages but not from monetary and injunctive relief when official actions violate individuals' federal rights.…
Descriptors: Administrators, City Officials, Civil Liberties, Court Litigation
Baxter, Felix V. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1981
The Martin Luther King case established a legal mandate requiring school systems to identify, assess, and remedy educational problems associated with the use of nonstandard English dialects, casual or otherwise, by minority group children. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hudgins, H. C., Jr.; Vacca, Richard S. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1982
Reviews three recent Supreme Court decisions involving government officials' immunity under Section 1983 of the U.S. Code (Civil Rights Act of 1871). Discusses how the decisions apply to school boards and officials and to teachers' and students' civil rights. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, City Officials, Civil Liberties
