Case Study: San Antonio Independent School District Vs. Rodriguez

Case Name, Citation, Year Safford Unified School Dist. #1 v. Redding 557 U.S. 364 (2009) Facts of the Case Redding was an eighth grade student, who was suspected of having over the counter drugs on school grounds. Over the counter drugs on school grounds is a violation of school policy.

Case Name, Citation, Year Cook v. Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), 09-cv-00547 M.D. Fla. (2009) Facts of the Case: On June 16, 2009 parents of female athletes at FHSAA member schools filed suit against the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida alleging that the newPolicy 6 discriminates against female students according to Title IX by reducing school participation in completions by 40 percent at the varsity level and 20 percent at the sub-varsity level. The plaintiffs also stated a complaint that male driven sports where exempt from this action because cheerleading was not recognized as a sport thus breaking the Title IX law. Issues: Why did Policy 6 reduced the number of competitions

Leonel Torres (Group #1) BUS3 80 09/08/14 Case Brief Case Name: Hernandez v. Arizona Board of Regents, 172 Ariz. 244; 866 P.2d 1330; 1994Ariz. LEXIS 6 Arizona Supreme Court, 1994. Facts: A fraternity from the University of Arizona gained new members to their organization, on August 27, 1988. The fraternity was accustomed to serving alcoholic beverages to those members who help fund the drinks.

: Joseph Frederick a high school student filed suit in District Court under 42 U.S.C. §1983, alleging violation of his First Amendment rights by the school board and Deborah Morse, the principal of his high school. The District Court granted summary judgment for the school board and Morse. Frederick appealed to the Ninth Circuit and the District Court’s decision was reversed. Morse appealed and Certiorari was granted. Facts: On January 24, 2002 the Olympic Torch Relay passed through Juneau, Alaska while school was in session.

1. Title and Citation Vance v. Ball State Univ. 570 U.S. ___ (2013)

According to Dent v. City of Dallas, the court ruled that police officers performing discretionary duties in good faith and acting within the course and scope of their employment are immune from personal liability under the doctrine of qualified immunity. The question that is presented in this situation is whether or not the police officer was acting within his course and scope of his employment. As a nation we have endowed our police officers with the right and authority to enforce the laws on whom they choose. Whether or not we reach the realization to this reality however is another story. The police officer has to use his ability on whom to arrest and not arrest responsibly because his actions do affect society.

a. What happened? Sarah Adams-Cornell and Jacqueline Holder, Chair Person of Parental Invovolment of Oklahoma City Schools, addressed McLoud to change their mascot name due to the negative effect it might have on their Native American Students. Mcloud acknowledged the issue and after seeing support from the local community and a local native american tribe, it was decided that would keep the name the Redskins. b. What was the ruling/decesion?

In 1950, in the Sweatt v. Painter and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents cases, the Court struck down segregation of African American students in law and graduate schools. The Justice Department, in its brief to the Court, said it believed Plessy was unconstitutional and should be overturned. NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyers, led by Thurgood Marshall, began to devise a strategy that would force the Court to re-examine the constitutionality of the separate-but-equal doctrine (2015 The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights/The Leadership Conference Education Fund). Thomas Madison had every right to go that college, he met every schoo. 1978:

In the case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, specific interpretations of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment were applied in reaching a decision by the Supreme Court. On December 16, 1945, three public school students attended school in the Des Moines Independent Community School District wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War. The school board of this district had written a policy prohibiting this just 2 days before after hearing that there could be possible protests. The school board forbade any students to protest the Vietnam War in fear that this would disrupt the school day.

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe without researching the details of the case is fairly elementary. A student council chaplain delivered a prayer before each football game. A Mormon, as well as a Catholic family, filed suit under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. With just an overview of the case, you wonder what drove those families to file suit. After reading chapter five of God on Trial it gave me more understanding behind the families and the main individuals that were apart of the case.

The landmark case Plyer v Doe 1982 is part of a series of subsequent case laws of the legal history of Bilingual Education. In 1975 Tyler, Texas legislation mandated that all public schools statewide charged undocumented and immigrant children tuition. Texas school district had an annual tuition of $1,000 deterred about 16,000 students total according to the Texas Observer article. (Olivas,2010). The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed a case against Tyler school district and in 1978 a U.S. judge found that Tyler school district policy to be unconstitutional.

Decades ago, children of various races could not go to school together in many locations of the United States. School districts could segregate students, legally, into different schools according to the color of their skin. The law said these separate schools had to be equal. Many schools for children that possessed color were of lesser quality than the schools for white students. To have separate schools for the black and white children became a basic rule in southern society.

Basing school funding on property tax leads to unequal opportunities and environments for students, even though the government may claim it is not up to them, there needs to be a drastic change. Currently, taxes collected from the surrounding communities fund public school districts. Public schools get financed mainly by the property tax of the surrounding houses. “Resources available to school districts relied heavily on local property wealth, and property wealth per pupil varied greatly, as it continues today”

According to a United States Supreme Court ruling, public schools have the ability to restrict students’ First Amendment rights. This became true in the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District Supreme Court case when Mary Beth Tinker, John Tinker, and Christopher Eckhart wore black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War. In order to understand Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court case one must establish the history, examine the case, and explain the impacts. During time of war in the 1960’s a case from a small town, Des Moines, Iowa, made its way to the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court.

From the website, Encyclopedia Britannica article Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley, I found that the court case Board of Education vs. Rowley is about a deaf student named Amy Rowley who lived in New York and attended a public school. Her parents approached the administration in the school at the beginning of Rowley kindergarten year explaining that their daughter would need an aid to sign to her while the teacher was teaching. The school granted their request for a two-week period but determined that the interpreter was not necessary. A new IEP was written for her explaining that she would use hearing aids and her ability to read lips to learn in a regular classroom. In addition, she would have