This survey of the current literature includes 79 annotations reviewing articles relating to educational law. The bibliography is organized under 19 topic areas. (MD)

At least for non-school-sponsored publications, prior restraints on student expression violate the First Amendment. School rules regulating content and manner of distribution of student publications must be precisely drawn, subject to the effect of the Supreme Court's refusal to consider the merits of Jacobs v. Board of School Commissioners.…

As a result of recent court litigation, it seems that a school district may require that the employee immediately notify the district of her state of pregnancy and of the intended beginning of her leave, that the employee furnish a doctor's statement as to her physical well-being and ability to continue work, that she begin her leave with…

Notes that politics has always been involved in the appointment of United States Supreme Court judges. Offers an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents and journal articles which will help teachers develop background and provide instruction on this recurrent process. (JDH)

The nine articles in this collection deal with theoretical and practical freedom of speech issues. Topics discussed include the following: (1) freedom of expression in Thailand and India; (2) metaphors and analogues in several landmark free speech cases; (3) Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas's views of the First Amendment; (4) the San…

This chapter deals with the administrator's responsibilities in teacher termination. It examines the specifics of due process, evaluation of the teacher prior to termination action, tenure, probationary periods, contractural stipulations, and state and federal court action. (IRT)

This document is a guide to the basic sources in the California State University, Fullerton, library that may be utilized in tracing federal laws, regulations, and court decisions. The bibliographic citation, library call number and/or location, and description of contents and/or use are provided for each reference source. Several sample entries…

Throughout this bibliography, an asterisk identifies citations especially useful for school law classes. The library identification code and a brief annotation accompany the citations that are organized in the following sections: (1) guides to legal research; (2) indexes; (3) dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, and handbooks; (4) American…

In Wood v. Strickland, the Supreme Court held that a school board member is not immune from liability for damages if he knew, or reasonably should have known, that the action he took within his sphere of official responsibility would violate the constitutional rights of the student affected; or, if he took the action with the malicious intention…

This book is a compilation of articles by Linda Zook, Steven Bower, Thomas Black, Frank Aquila, Patrick Tydings, Robert Powers, and Bruce Graham on the legal and educational history of school segregation. An initial article reviews the Federal court process. Also presented is a general historical review of Supreme Court doctrine on the issue of…

An annotated bibliography lists 34 Supreme Court decisions since 1970 that have arisen in colleges and universities. They are organized according to the type of institution to which they appear to apply (public, general, private, and church-related), and according to their application to student or faculty affairs. The following decisions are…

The six articles in this collection deal with theoretical and practical freedom of speech issues. Topics covered are (1) freedom of expression and the Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment (R. J. Jensen); (2) the U.S. Supreme Court and the First Amendment (W. A. Linsley); (3) antipornography campaigns (R. McGaffey); (4) the human rights advocacy…

This is the fourth of a series of Capsule Bibliographies on current issues in urban and minority education. It is a selection from a computer search using suitable descriptors matched against a standard Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse profile for urban and minority concepts. Such descriptors (subject headings) as…