updated Mon. September 16, 2024
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Huffington Post
July 13, 2016
In the decision Goss v. Lopez, the high court said schools aren't required to give students the right to a lawyer, to confront and cross-examine witnesses or to call their own witnesses. The letter cites that Supreme Court case as establishing that only public schools are required to provide notice of chargesÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
June 16, 2016
The Supreme Court, in Goss v. Lopez (1975), held that public school students must be afforded due process before being deprived of their education. States do not have to provide a free public education, but those that do grant to students a legitimate entitlement to a public education that constitutes aÃâà...
The National Law Review
June 6, 2016
The question of whether a competent, terminally ill minor should have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment (LSMT) is perhaps the most intimate, personal, and difficult decision a person could possibly face. While the concepts of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are undoubtedlyÃâà...
Defense One
April 23, 2015
The plurality's understanding of the Due Process Clause in Hamdi accords with the Court's previous assertion in Goss v. Lopez that an individual ought to have “some kind of notice and some kind of hearing” before the government takes away his life, liberty, or property. In his Hamdi dissent, Justice ThomasÃâà...
Gothamist
February 13, 2015
... they are governed by the New York State Charter Schools Act and the state constitution. They must also comply with federal law, including IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and Goss v. Lopez, a decision which regulates due process requirements for suspensions. The AFC report allegesÃâà...
Vox
October 16, 2014
When I first looked at California's Yes Means Yes law, I thought it was ridiculous. The law redefines consent such that the everyday actions of loving couples would technically be unprosecuted assault. Meanwhile it did nothing to resolve the core problem in college sexual assault cases: one party says thereÃâà...
The New Republic
September 2, 2013
In 1975, in Goss v. Lopez, the Supreme Court found schoolchildren to have due process rights. “As a result, students can say to teachers with some authority, 'If you do that, my mom is going to sue you.' And that changes the score.” In Goss's wake, many educators moved toward what progressive educationÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 6, 2012
This federal support took the form of the establishment of legal advocacy organizations that not only sued local public schools, but also devised legal strategies that resulted in the Supreme Court's Goss v. Lopez (1975) decision extending rudimentary due process rights to public school students who facedÃâà...
