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Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Analyzes Indiana case involving a school district's efforts to obtain a limited education guardianship and the medical records for a 16-year-old special-education student whose mother refused to cooperate in the development of an IEP. The state appellate court reversed the trail court's decision granting the district's requests. Discusses…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, High School Students, Individualized Education Programs, Parent Responsibility
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
By upholding a student's refusal to provide a urine sample, the Seventh Circuit Court correctly avoided further erosion of the Fourth Amendment's privacy principle. In "New Jersey v T.L.O." (1995), the U.S. Supreme Court shrunk the probable-cause standard to reasonable suspicion in the special context of public schools, retaining the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, High Schools, Privacy
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In this month's Courtside, the author will stray somewhat from his usual format of describing a single case. Instead, he will be presenting the details of two separate cases, both of which involve similar circumstances, rely on similar legal arguments, and have similar outcomes. Most important, both appear to carry the same lesson. The lessons…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Secondary School Teachers