The Wrightslaw Way

Question before the Court in Safford United School District #1 v. Redding at http://www.wrightslaw.com/news/09/safford.redding.htm) Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits public school officials from conducting a search of a student suspected of possessing and distributing a prescription drug on campus in violation of school policy. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from established principles of qualified immunity […]

The Supreme Court agreed to hear and decide several education cases this term. In February, the Court issued a surprising unanimous decision in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable Sch. Committee, 555 U. S. ___ (2009). This decision on behalf of a young child who was sexually harassed by an older student clarified that parents may sue school […]