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Karatinos, Theodore E. – Wests's Education Law Quarterly, 1993
Examines the Fifth Circuit Court's 1991 reasoning in "Price," a case that resulted from the school district's adoption of a new student reassignment plan to meet court-ordered desegregation. Suggests locating schools in the center of cities. Advocates that the judiciary conduct periodic checks on school districts that have been declared…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Vergon, Charles B. – 1985
The 1977 Supreme Court decision in "Milliken v. Bradley," involving the Detroit public schools and the state of Michigan, held that federal courts possess the authority not only to order the implementation of educational program components as part of a desegregation remedy, but also to assess a portion of the cost of such components…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Federal Courts, Financial Problems
Sistrunk, Walter E.; Guin, Mary Linda – 1983
This paper offers administrators, teachers, and school boards an introduction to legal issues surrounding teacher dismissal and school desegregation and summarizes a study of all teacher dismissal cases heard from 1970 through 1981 in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Most of the report is devoted to an overview of the historical development of…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Due Process
Peer reviewedFisher, Louis – West's Education Law Reporter, 1989
Examines the general concept of judicial activism, then looks at three specific areas where charges of usurpation of policy-making power have been leveled at the courts: (1) racial desegregation; (2) due process for students; and (3) religion in public education. Concludes that judicial involvement in school policy occurs when explicit…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Wedlock, Eldon D. – 1974
Court cases regarding students' rights are little changed from previous years. The majority of the litigation relates either to clarification of existing law or to suits alleging illegal actions by school administrators and teachers. The issues of corporal punishment and freedom of expression appear to be somewhat settled. The rights of mentally…
Descriptors: Athletics, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Desegregation Litigation
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1984
This chapter, which reports on decisions made by federal and state courts in 1983 concerning the treatment of pupils, notes that for the first time in five years the number of such cases did not increase. Important decisions were handed down regarding student expression and concerning the payment of fees and damages in litigation affecting the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Bilingual Education, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
Lufler, Henry S., Jr. – 1987
This third chapter of "The Yearbook of School Law, 1986" summarizes and analyzes state and federal court decisions handed down in 1985 affecting the legal rights of students in elementary and secondary schools. Among the topics examined are public school pupil assignment, tuition, transportation, compulsory attendance, and bilingual and bicultural…
Descriptors: Athletics, Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Camp, William E., Ed.; Connelly, Mary Jane, Ed.; Lane, Kenneth E., Ed.; Mead, Julie F., Ed. – 2000
This handbook for elementary and secondary school principals contains several chapters on topics important to building level administrators. Each chapter summarizes relevant state and federal court decisions and statutes, concluding with recommendations for practice. The handbook is divided into four sections: students and the law, special…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Child Abuse, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Piele, Philip K., Ed. – 1983
This comprehensive reference reviews court decisions affecting the operation, management, and governance of public schools. This edition analyzes all public school cases decided during the 1982 calendar years and reported in West's Regional, Federal, and Supreme Court Resports, through the December 1982 advance sheets. Included as well are 1981…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Desegregation Litigation
