This dissertation explored the constitutionality of a Georgia law, under both the Georgia Constitution and the United States Constitution, which allows for the removal of elected school board members based on threatened loss of district accreditation. The problem is that elected board members are being removed from office based on district…

Southern Methodist University has released the terms of its agreement with the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation to house the president's official library and museum. To some faculty members, the most troubling element of the project is a conservative policy institute that will be affiliated with the library and museum. Unlike similar…

The Yearbook of Education Law contains analyses of the previous year's federal and state court decisions that affect private and public elementary and secondary schools and higher education. The Yearbook provides summaries and analyses of relevant state appellate and federal trial and appellate court cases. Contents include: (1) Employees; (2)…

An analysis of the legal issues dealing with mass media today. Topics covered are media ownership, fairness doctrine, federal policy and fine arts, free press/fair trial, and confidentiality of news sources. The latest court decisions and their implications are discussed along with each topic. (HB)

Court decisions resulting from litigation regarding higher education governance and finance are discussed in this chapter. Governing body authority and intergovernmental relations are the subjects of a number of cases. Three cases involve questions of licensing of private institutions of higher education by state agencies. Other cases illustrate…

Court litigation concerning governance and finance in higher education demonstrates lawyers' attempts to extend the legal principles established in one educational system to different systems. Intergovernmental relations cases involve educational institutions' connections with counties, cities, states, and various public agencies. Because of an…

A review on both a federal and state by state basis of developments in the fields of racial and sexual differences in educational opportunities, employment opportunities in education, school integration, court litigation, and the formation of public educational policy in general, particularly in relation to enterprise. (JM)

Article reviews some of the major developments in communications law in the United States in the past year (1972). Significant events are covered in the areas of cable television, television programming and domestic satelites. (Author)

A brief history of media in the United States and its relationship to the First Amendment to the Constitution. The newspaper industry, books and magazines are mainly considered in terms of government control versus free expression in a democratic society. (HB)

Argues against government intervention in college and university governance to solve campus problems. Cites legal and other sources to support the position that the institutions, "in the preservation of its tradition and function, must be mater in its own household. (Author/WM)

With legal threats against them mounting, trustees of public and private colleges alike are hearing mixed and vague messages about how much they personally have at stake in lawsuits aimed at their institutions' affirmative-action policies. Few cases in either federal or states courts provide guidance on trustees' potential individual liability.…

The history of the 11th amendment to the U.S. Constitution and its current application to schools and universities are examined in this paper. The amendment, which seeks to protect the states by redefining judicial boundaries within the federal concept of government, is unclear and paradoxical, especially to claimants seeking federal relief from a…

The responsibility for preventing too much federal regulation of education rests with the educators themselves. The author urges administrators to assert greater influence on legislators and offers five ways to regulate the regulators. (Editor/LBH)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is empowered with a delicate balance of executive, legislative, and judicial powers, putting the Commission in a vulnerable position whenever its decisions are reviewed. This paper takes the position that a "super-regulatory" title is unjustified when applied to the legally sanctioned role…

The Yeshiva decision emerged at an unfortunate time for many professionals. Public policy, as embodied in our labor relations laws, should encourage consultative decision making in matters of professional concern without penalizing those professional by extinguishing their rights as employees to unionize. (Author/MSE)