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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
Wetterer, Charles M. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1971
Discusses Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures in terms of searches made of students and their lockers. (JF)
Descriptors: Administrators, Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Crime
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1985
Outlines the confusion surrounding a Supreme Court decision in the "New Jersey vs. TLO" case, which put at issue the prohibition against unreasonable searches in schools. The Court's decision allows a lower standard of reasonableness to be applied in school searches. The standards are not clear and are open to serious question. (MD)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Drug Use
Download full textBuss, William G. – 1971
This monograph summarizes methods used to investigate and prevent crime in school, sketches possible legal claims that students might make as a result of these approaches to inschool crime prevention, and, in an extensive analysis of five court cases, gives particular attention to the legal issues related to searches of student lockers by school…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Court Litigation, Crime, Freedom of Speech
Phay, Robert E.; Rogister, George T., Jr. – 1975
Although the Federal courts have not yet decided any cases involving search and seizure of student's property, various State courts have ruled that the Fourth Amendment protects students from "unreasonable" searches by school officials. However, the courts have generally applied a less stringent standard in justifying searches by school…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Civil Liberties, Court Litigation, Due Process
Rossow, Lawrence F. – 1987
This monograph attempts to provide clear understanding of the standards presented by the Supreme Court in "New Jersey v. T.L.O." relative to search and seizure in public schools, and suggests practical ways of applying search and seizure law to situations in the school setting. ("T.L.O." are the initials of the anonymous…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Rossow, Lawrence F.; Stefkovich, Jacqueline A. – 1995
Search and seizure in the public schools has long been a problem for both school authorities and law-enforcement officers. Students have also been known to have been deprived of their constitutional rights. Much of the problem stems from a lack of clarity in the application of the Fourth Amendment to the school setting. This monograph was written…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
