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LaMorte, Michael W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
Provides educators with scenarios or hypothetical fact patterns depicting issues that have potential for litigation. (Author)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Responsibility, School Law
Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1985
Reviews the United States Supreme Court's findings in "New Jersey vs. T.L.O.," a case hinging on the reasonableness of a school official's search of a student's purse. Cites several issues that remained unresolved after the decision and argues that the court could have been more helpful. (PGD)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Privacy
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