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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
In a California case involving a 16-year-old girl's possession of three knives on school grounds, both a trial and Ninth Circuit court affirmed the school vice-principal's right to search and discover these weapons while enforcing a no-smoking policy. The court lectured parents and lawyers for wasting the court's time--especially after a juvenile…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, High Schools, Misconceptions
