Law Cases: Part 2

Question 1

B of E of the Hendrick Hudson Central SD v. Rowley

Answer 1

Students have the right to 504 plan, but they don’t need everything

Question 2

Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth

Answer 2

Contracts clause

Question 3

Carey v. Piphus

Answer 3

Students can’t get nonpunitive damages if there wasn’t any harm

Question 4

Barcheski v. B of E of Grand Rapids Public Schools

Answer 4

You can fire teachers for inappropriate behavior

Question 5

Eckmann v. B of E of Hawthorne School District

Answer 5

You can’t fire an unmarried pregnant teacher; violates Pregnancy Discrimination Act

Question 6

East Hartford Educ. v. B of E of Town of East Hartford

Answer 6

Schools can impose reasonable regulation with dress code

Question 7

Bethel SD v. Fraser

Answer 7

No freedom for lewd speech in public

Question 8

Rose v. Council for Better Education

Answer 8

If school finance is inadequate, it will be thrown out and reconstructed (Kentucky)

Question 9

Zelman v. Simons-Harris

Answer 9

Students in public schools can receive vouchers to religious and non-religious schools; used with lemon test

Question 10

Wood v. Strickland

Answer 10

School board members can’t be sued unless the actions are malicious

Question 11

Pierce v. Society of Sisters

Answer 11

Compulsory attendance and the right for private schools to exist

Question 12

Peter W. v. San Francisco SD

Answer 12

You can’t sue for educational malpractice

Question 13

Palmer v. Merluzzi

Answer 13

• Extra curricular activities are not a fundamental right (football and radio)
• Once you already had due process for academics, you don’t need it for extracurricular

Question 14

New Jersey v. TLO

Answer 14

• Students are protected against search and seizure (4th)
• Only reasonable suspension is needed
• Has to be legal from inception (all parts) - drugs
  (looking in backpack for cigs)

Question 15

Murray v. Curlett

Answer 15

Can’t read bible during school

Question 16

Pickering v. B of E

Answer 16

Teachers have 1st amendment rights outside of school (cannot of malice)

Question 17

Berg v. Glen Cove

Answer 17

• Vaccinations/Immunizations
• Schools have the right to request this
• There are waivers in CA for a sincere and genuine belief

Question 18

Engel v. Vitale

Answer 18

No prayer in school and school boards can’t write them

Question 19

Edwards v. Aguillard

Answer 19

Cannot teach creation and it violates the Establishment Clause

Question 20

Brown v. B of E Topeka II

Answer 20

Implementation of desegregation in school and public places

Question 21

Brown v. B of E Topeka I

Answer 21

Separate is NOT equal and it overturned Plessy

Question 22

Thomas v. Atascadero USD

Answer 22

Esclusion of student with HIV goes against Rehabilitation Act, Section 504

Question 23

Sherman v. Community Consolidated SD

Answer 23

• Schools can recite the pledge, but cannot force or stop anyone from saying the pledge
• “Under G-d” isn’t a prayer

Question 24

Serrano v. Priest

Answer 24

• Established standard of fiscal neutrality
• Tax money goes to state and then distributed
• Strict scrutiny and fiscal neutrality