Gov. 12‚ Hr. 4 Dec. 17‚ 2012 Vernonia School District v. Acton (1995) Case Identification The Vernonia School District v. Acton case took place in 1995 at the Rehnquist Court at Vernonia High School in Oregon(1). This case was decided on Monday‚ June 26‚ 1995 (2). In a town named Vernonia‚ Oregon‚ the local public schools faced a major problem regarding the drug use of students while participating in high school athletics (3). The Vernonia School Board were disturbed that drug use increases
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Supreme Court decided on the case Vernonia School District v. Acton as to whether or not random drug testing of high school athletes violated the reasonable search and seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment. During the 1980 ’s and 1990 ’s there was a large increase in drug use. The courts decision was a strong interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and the right decision upon drug testing high school athletes. Between 1985 and 1989 the Vernonia School District began to see a marked increase in disciplinary
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LEGAL ANALYSIS 1. STATEMENT OF FACTS: Sheila White interviewed with Marvin Brown and obtained a job as a “track laborer” with Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Company. Shortly after her hire date‚ however‚ she assumed forklift operator duties. This new assignment still fell under the “track laborer” position description‚ and White occasionally performed those duties although her primary responsibility was operating the forklift. Three months into her new job‚ White complained to the
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research to cure deafness‚ claim the Deaf culturists‚ but should accept Deaf people as composing a cultural minority and respect their right to live as Deaf person.”(Bonnie Tucker 1997) The subculture that I research/analyzed was the Deaf community at Santa Fe College. When asking many students on campus on whether they have knowledge about this community and its existences many people respond with “No”. With so many people responding this way‚ this was the reason why I chose this subculture to be researched
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I. Central Question and Context o Central Question: Was the majority decision correct in San Antonio Independent School District et al v. Rodriguez et al? In San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez‚ the Supreme Court held that the financing system based on local property tax adopted by the State of Texas did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because the plaintiffs could not prove that education is a fundamental right protected by the U.S. Constitution
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Timothy W. V. Rochester School District Abstract The provision of resources to handicapped children is subject to a wide variety of federal and state laws and statutes. However‚ due the varied and spectacular range of disabilities and combination of disabilities it is often difficult to easily decide who should receive benefits and who should not. Often debated both within the court system‚ and without‚ is the subject of whether the child with a severe disability can actually benefit from the
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At times in schools‚ there could be disagreements and disputes between the decisions of government and the rights of individuals. Students attend school in order to become well-educated young adults. The schoolteacher’s main objective is to make sure that students are receiving the maximum amount of learning to prepare them for future endeavors. Schools educate students on citizenship and what it means to live in a democracy. Public schools are under the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment
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Homelessness in Santa Fe‚ New Mexico Name: Tutor: Institution: Course: Date: Contents Introduction According to Klein (2005)‚ local problems refer to the issues that impact on the society either positively or negatively. Klein (2005) provides that local issues often impact negatively on one group of individuals while at the same time impacting positively on another group of individuals on the society. Local problems affect a small group of individuals
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By chiefly drawing on legal precedence in four court cases—Brown‚ Governor of California‚ et al. v. Entertainment Merchants Association‚ et al. (Brown v. EMA)‚ Ginsberg v. New York‚ Case v. Unified School District‚ and Campbell v. St-Tammany Parish School Board—‚ this paper endorses the claim that all books which present controversial subject matter should have an informative label on them. Controversial subject matter is stipulated as any content that may cause emotional or mental harm on well-being
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1. In the case of Bethel School District v. Fraser a lot happened. In my understanding there was a school event in which students gave speeches. The one student gave a speech with language unaccepted in the school‚ and got suspended‚ and was not allowed to be voted in for the election. The Father got angry and believed that his sons amendment rights were being violated. He felt like his sons first amendment right of freedom of speech was being withheld from him‚ along with his fourteenth amendment
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