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Flygare, Thomas J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
This case is significant because it goes further than any other earlier decision in describing the outlines of the substantive due process concept as it applies to school discipline. (Author)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Corporal Punishment, Court Litigation, Due Process
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Discusses federal district court decision dismissing suit brought by three Texas high school students claiming that their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when police, at request of administrators, entered school and rounded up, handcuffed, and detained them and 11 other students who "hung out" with a student arrested…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, High Schools
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Describes Illinois case involving the expulsion of five students for a gang-related brawl at a high school football game in Decatur. Students brought suit against the school district claiming violation of their 14th Amendment right to procedural due process. Both the federal district court and court of appeals rejected the students' claim.…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Reviews Ridgewood, New Jersey, case wherein several parents claimed that school district's student survey violated students' privacy rights protected by the Constitution and two federal statutes: The Family Rights and Privacy Act and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment. Discusses subsequent federal regulatory and state legislative action.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts
