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May 18, 2012 By Joe Tanguma Leave a Comment
Woo Pig! Wilbur Goes to Court By Joe Tanguma of the Walsh Anderson Firm You may have heard a story in the news recently of a certain Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig. His name is Wilbur, but not to the neighborhood Home Owner’s Association (HOA) presiding over Wilbur’s digs—the backyard of the Sardo Family’s abode. To [...]
May 7, 2012 By Devin Walsh Leave a Comment
In September of 2011, this column focused on the case of a nine-year-old girl who’d allegedly been sexually abused when an adult who should have been forbidden by school policy from retrieving her from class was permitted to do so on six different occasions. At that time, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court [...]
March 27, 2012 By Jennifer Childress - Editor of The Legal Digest
In a much-anticipated decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc ruled that a school district did not have a constitutional duty to protect a student from off-campus sexual assault. In Doe v. Covington County School District, nine-year-old Jane Doe’s elementary school allegedly had a formal, compulsory check-out policy. As part of the [...]
March 23, 2012 By Jennifer Childress - Editor of The Legal Digest
A federal district court in Houston recently examined whether claims stemming from on-campus bullying were sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss by the school district. In Estate of Brown v. Ogletree, 2012 WL 591190 (S.D. Tex. 2012) (unpublished), the court held that the parents stated valid Title IX and due process claims, but dismissed [...]
May 18, 2012 By Legal Digest Online Leave a Comment
Paul Roberts was “Teacher of the Year” when he was arrested and fired from his job teaching math atStafford Middle School. Administrators allege the 52-year-old educator’s Facebook conversations with two students featured lewd dialogue peppered with “profanity of a sexual nature.” Similar incidents are cropping up across the country as social media tools proliferate. In January, a California [...]
May 16, 2012 By Legal Digest Online Leave a Comment
The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday issued a document that discourages schools from using restraints and seclusion on students. The “resource document” outlines 15 principles for states, school districts, and educators to consider with regard to policies on restraints or seclusion. “These principles stress that every effort should be made to prevent the need for the [...]
May 16, 2012 By Legal Digest Online Leave a Comment
AMARILLO — A teen who says he was injured at his Texas Panhandle high school in a Holocaust role-playing exercise has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school district. Andrew Yara alleges he was seriously hurt in a fall when he was jumped while carrying a classmate on his back two years ago. [...]
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