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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Education Law : From 10/01/01 To 07/01/02

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Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Constitutional Law, Education Law, Health Law
Title: BD. OF EDUC. OF INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. 92 OF POTTAWATAMIE COUNTY v. EARLS
Date: 06/27/02
Case Number: 01-332
Summary: A school district policy, requiring students participating in extracurricular activities to consent to drug testing, reasonably furthers the district's important interest in preventing and deterring drug use by students, and does not violate the Fourth Amendment.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Constitutional Law, Education Law
Title: ZELMAN v. SIMMONS-HARRIS
Date: 06/27/02
Case Number: 00-1751
Summary: A program giving educational choices and aid to certain students attending both religious and non-religious public and private schools, enacted for the valid secular purpose of providing educational assistance to poor children, is one of true "private choice" and does not offend the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Civil Rights, Education Law
Title: GONZAGA UNIV. v. DOE
Date: 06/20/02
Case Number: 01-679
Summary: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act's non-disclosure of information provisions create no personal right to enforce under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, enforcement of individual rights.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Civil Rights, Education Law
Title: OWASSO INDEP. SCH. DIST. NO. I011 v. FALVO
Date: 02/19/02
Case Number: 00-1073
Summary: Peer grading, or allowing students to grade one another's tests, papers, and assignments while teachers explain the correct answers to the entire class does not violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), since student papers are not "maintained" under Section 1232g(a)(4)(A) of FERPA at the time students perform peer grading, nor do student graders constitute people who are "acting for" an educational institution under the statute.

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