http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/the-2nd-circuit-wrongly-holds-that-public-school-officials-can-constitutionally-prohibit-a-students-attempt-to-clear-his-name/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/the-2nd-circuit-wrongly-holds-that-public-school-officials-can-constitutionally-prohibit-a-students-attempt-to-clear-his-name/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:38:30 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=77703 writing at FindLaw: "The case was DeFabio v. East Hampton Union Free School Dist., and the student, Daniel DeFabio, had sued the school and individual school officials -- including the Principal and Superintendent -- under a federal statute that allows civil suits to be brought for damages caused by violations of constitutional rights (including First Amendment rights) . . . In dismissing the suit, the appellate panel allowed public-school students to be effectively rendered unable to timely defend themselves against allegations made by their classmates -- even when those very allegations are causing their classmates and others in the community to contemplate violence against them." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/21/the-2nd-circuit-wrongly-holds-that-public-school-officials-can-constitutionally-prohibit-a-students-attempt-to-clear-his-name/feed/ 0