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Investigating Fourth Amendment Judicial Outcomes across Contrasting Minority School Settings: Subjectivity in Disciplinary Decision Making in Diverse Settings?
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Torres, Mario S., Jr.; Callahan, Jamie L. – Education and Urban Society, 2008
This study explores the court system's treatment of students' Fourth Amendment rights in cases emerging from contrasting minority school settings and whether discrepancies exist in case outcomes between these extremes. From virtually every search and seizure case that occurred between the 1985 U.S. Supreme Court case in "New Jersey v.…
Descriptors: Courts, Search and Seizure, Court Litigation, Psychological Patterns
Teaching the Bill of Rights.
Justice, William Wayne – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Like other institutions, schools are occupied by people whose duties and liberties are in conflict. Understanding the Bill of Rights can help resolve school problems as well as major social problems outside the court system. Students should value the first eight constitutional amendments as not tied to majority rule and should study them…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Civil Liberties, Courts
School Law in Review--1986. Proceedings of the NSBA Council of School Attorneys Annual School Law Seminar (Las Vegas, Nevada, April 4-5, 1986). Volume 2.
Gittins, Naomi E., Ed.; And Others – 1986
This volume of seminar presentations covers a broad range of legal issues affecting public schools. The first chapter summarizes employee free speech developments since "Connick v. Myers" (1983), a United States Supreme Court decision upholding a district attorney's right to dismiss a transferred assistant for circulating a controversial…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Courts, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Violence and School Safety. Case Citations, 2002.
Russo, Charles J., Ed.; Mawdsley, Ralph D., Ed. – 2002
This publication highlights and explains some 400 court cases from 2002 involving issues of school violence and safety. It is divided into four sections, or topics: (1) "The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure" (R. Mawdsley); (2) "Negligence" (W. Evans, Jr.); (3) "Assault on School Personnel" (M. Yates); and (4) "Drugs and Weapons in Schools" (M.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Court Litigation, Courts, Elementary Secondary Education