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Lavine v. Blanie School District
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| The student showed his teacher a poem he wrote that described him shooting other students. The student was placed on emergency expulsion and was allowed to come back after a psychiatric examination. The expulsion didn't violate the students first amendment rights. The court ruled in favor of the school. |
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| A student got suspended from school for drug possession. The student filed a suit stating that he was denied due process. The court ruled that student's hearing was sufficient enough to equal due process. The court ruled in favor of the school. |
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| A student was put on academic and athletic suspension due to his use of alcohol and tobacco. His father challenged that saying that his son wasn't given the opportunity to defend himself. The court decided that this was not a valid reason for appeal. |
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| Keogh v. Tate County Board of Education |
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| Student appealed his suspension stating that his due process rights were violated. The court ruled that the meetings with the principal worked as due process and therefore denied the student's complaint. |
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| Ratner v. Loudoun Co Public Schools |
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| A student was caught with a knife in his locker. Although it was another student's property, school officials suspended him saying that he violated the zero tolerance policy. The student's mother sued saying that he was dismissed of his rights but the court ruled in favor of the school. |
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| Student filed a complaint stating that her constitutional rights were violated: the eight amendment. Court ruled that at the public school level the eight amendment did not stand up. Court ruled in favor of the school. |
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| A teacher struck a student with a paddle and another school employee watched. The student filed a claim stating that she was injured. Court ruled to bring it to another court to determine what the outcome would be. |
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| Tomczik v. State Tenure Comm |
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A teacher struck a student and in the years following he continued to be violent towards students. He was asked to leave the school but filed a complaint stating he had tenure. The school board and court ruled that they had just cause to fire the teacher.
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| A student's purse was searched for cigarettes but officials also found marijunana. The student complained that the search violated her fourth amendment rights but the court ruled that because she was on school grounds and she was a minor, that did not comply. |
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| After a store was burglarized a student's locker was searched with his permission. A locker key was found and confiscated. Found in the locker were the stolen items from the store. Student filed a complaint stating that he had not given his permission for the locker to be searched. Court overruled his complaint. |
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A driver hit and a women pedestrian who was eight and a half months pregnant. The fetus died in the womb. The court ruled that the term of the fetus did indeed make it a "person" which convicted the driver of homicide by motor vehicle.
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| A student was searched due to allogations that they were carrying drugs on them. The student was strip searched to her underwear. The student filed a complaint saying that it violated her rights. Court ruled that the search was unreasonable and the student won. |
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| Defendant argued that he was entitled to presentence custody credit for the time between his arrest and the summary revocation of his probation because his local jail custody throughout the entire period prior to imposition of a previously stayed prison sentence for burglary was based on the same conduct - his possession of burglary tools and receipt of stolen property. Court ruled he did not have rights to his property. |
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| A man refused to have his bags go through a drug test at an airport. The agents took his bag before they had a search warrant. The court ruled in favor of the man. |
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| Horton v. Goose Creek ISD |
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In petitioning for a panel rehearing, appellant school argued that the court had set a standard of reliability for the drug-detecting dogs that was not attainable because it would have required that a dog be trained to alert only when it was reasonably certain that drugs were on a person, such as appellee student.The court denied appellant school's petition for a panel rehearing in a case involving appellee student.
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| Doe v. Little Rock School District |
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The district regularly conducted searches of randomly selected classrooms by ordering students to leave the room after removing everything from their pockets and placing all of their belongings. The school failed to demonstrate the existence of a need sufficient to justify the substantial intrusions upon the students' privacy interests that the search practice entailed.
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| Vernonia School District v. Acton |
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Petitioner school district required student athletes to submit to drug testing. a seventh grade student and his parents, refused to sign the testing consent forms and filed suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from enforcement of the policy on the grounds that it violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, U.S. Const. amends. IV
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| Board of Education v. Earls |
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The students contended that the board's drug testing policy was unconstitutional since the board failed to identify a special need for testing students who participate in extracurricular activities, and the policy neither addressed a proven problem nor required a showing of individualized suspicion of drug use. The judgment finding that the board's drug testing policy was unconstitutional was reversed.
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| Respondent students sued petitioner school board members under 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983, claiming that their federal constitutional due process rights were infringed under color of state law by their expulsion from school for violations of a school regulation. |
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| The plantiff sued saying he was injuried due to a lack of due process laws in order to gain money. Court ruled he was not elligible for compensation. |
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