Name ____Jereamy Rose ___________
ELS 740 Law and Ethics:
Log of Litigation & Law
Category/ Topic:
Law/ Litigation
(Case Law):
Special Education
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Teacher Constitutional law
Teacher Constitutional law
Relevance to You:
Greer vs. Rome City School Place students based on the IEP
District (11th Circuit Court, team agreement and use
1992) Sacramento City
Unified School District vs. documentation to support your
Holland (9th Circuit Court, decision. Must prove that
1994) Poolaw vs. Parker accommodations and modification
Unified School District (9 th were not sufficient enough for the
Circuit Court, 1995) : Court
student to succeed.
established that cost
cannot determine
placement of a special
education student. Success
in the class determines it.
The educational benefits of
placing the child in a fulltime regular education
program;
The non-academic benefits
of such a placement;
The effect the child would
have on the teacher and
other students in the
regular classroom;
The costs associated with
this placement.
Connick v. Myers 1983: the court Whenever there is a question of a
decided that discipline and order right make sure you think about
outweighs some teacher rights.
what affect that right will have on
the safety of the school and the
disruption it may cause.
Borger v. Bisciglia 1995, Fowler
v. board of education Kentucky
1987, Bethel v. Fraser 1986 : The
first amendment does not always
protect teachers rights (student
work, curriculum, videos, etc.)
Make sure that the materials you
present are moral, follow policy,
law, and do not cause a safety
issue.
Category/ Topic:
Teacher Constitutional law
Teacher Constitutional law
Teacher Constitutional law
Law/ Litigation
(Case Law):
Relevance to You:
Pickering V. Board of education Be careful about your
1968, Connick V. Myers 1983, Mt. communications that they be
Health City School Disrict Board focused on public concerns and
of Education v. Doyle : the court not personal concerns. Personal
found that matters of public
attacks are not protected. School
concern are protected speech but districts cannot make decisions
personal speech are not protected based on protected speech.
and the school district cannot
retaliate based on the protected
speach
Melzer v. Board of Education
Be careful about your membership
2003: the court found that
status, if it is leaked to the public
membership in organizations are and causes a substantial disruption,
protected unless it disrupts the
then you are not protected.
mission of the school.
O’Connor v. Ortega 1987 and
Joines v. State 2003: the court
found that search and seizures are
protected as long as there is
reasonable cause.
Document the reasonable cause
based on evidence provided and a
search is protected. Do not do
searches based on a hunch, etc.