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Vacca, Richard S.; Hudgins, H. C., Jr. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1992
Thirty-eight years have elapsed since the "Brown" decision outlawing public school segregation. Part 1 reveals three clearly identifiable periods of judicial development. Part 2 treats unanswered questions and attitudes of school officials pre-"Dowell." Part 3 examines the post-"Dowell" period to the present and…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Vacca, Richard S.; Hudgins, H. C., Jr. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1994
Summarizes the historical background of First Amendment law from "Tinker v. Des Moines" (1969) to "Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier" (1988). Examines the Supreme Court's most recent decisions on related matters as well as lower court decisions involving bias-motivated speech on campus. Offers specific suggestions for public school…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Vacca, Richard S.; Evans, William J., Jr. – 1987
This fifth chapter of "The Yearbook of School Law, 1986" summarizes and analyzes state and federal court decisions handed down in 1985 involving claims of torts (civil wrongs, other than those involving breach of contract) committed by elementary or secondary educational institutions or personnel. Among the topics reviewed are claims of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts
Hudgins, H. C., Jr.; Vacca, Richard S. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1982
Reviews three recent Supreme Court decisions involving government officials' immunity under Section 1983 of the U.S. Code (Civil Rights Act of 1871). Discusses how the decisions apply to school boards and officials and to teachers' and students' civil rights. (Author/RW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, City Officials, Civil Liberties
Vacca, Richard S.; Hudgins, H. C., Jr. – American School Board Journal, 1994
School boards need to keep current on the status of graduation prayer. The "Weisman" decision said graduation prayers violated the First Amendment; the "Jones" decision would allow graduation ceremonies with student-led invocations and benedictions. Reviews these decisions to pinpoint the sources of confusion in subsequent…
Descriptors: Commencement Ceremonies, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Graduation
Connors, Eugene T.; Vacca, Richard S. – 1981
The section of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) detailing "appropriate education" as a function of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) regulates a variety of educational considerations. Arguing that the IEP is in fact "the hub of the special education wheel," the authors of this document begin…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Educational Malpractice, Educational Needs
Vacca, Richard S. – 1985
Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 was designed as a flexible and broadly scoped statute to restrict a wide variety of actions of state officials. During the past 15 years the number of court cases in which provisions of the 1871 act have been applied to school-related issues has increased geometrically. In 1961 the provisions of the act…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Vacca, Richard S.; Hudgins, H. C., Jr. – 1991
This book is limited to a study of the education opinions of the Supreme Court during the time that Warren Earl Burger served as Chief Justice. Over 100 opinions having direct bearing on education were issued during the Burger years, a total greater than in the entire Court's history. The first chapter presents the history of the establishment of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Constitutional Law, Corporal Punishment, Court Litigation
