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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Student Allowed to Bring Service Dog to School

Check out this case about whether a special education student has a right to bring a service dog to public school...
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/08/does-a-disabled.html
East Meadow Union Free School Dist. v. NYS Division of Human Rights, ___Misc. 3d ___ (Nassau Supreme Court 2007)

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Teacher Terminated: No Consensual Sex with Students

Check out this Third Circuit case holding that student cannot consent to sex with teacher.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/08/students-can-ne.html
Chancellor v. Pottsgrove School District, (3d Cir. 2007)

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Possible Changes to the No Child Left Behind Act?

Check out
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/08/possible-change.html
for possible changes coming to the No Child Left Behind Act.

Student Free Speech; Student Discipline

Check out
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2007/08/11th-circuit-gr.html
for an interesting case about student freedom of speech and the threat of violence in schools from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Boim v. Fulton County School District, ___F. 3d ___(11th Cir. July 31, 2007)