Tag: Massachusetts

Safety Law News for March 11, 2024

— In Washington State, the Supreme Court of Washington affirmed that school officials violated the statutory procedural rights of a student by indefinitely suspending him.  Administrators expelled the high school student on an emergency basis for violating its “gang contract,”…

Safety Law News for December 14, 2021

— In Texas, the United States Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by parents whose special needs child was seized by the neck, thrown to the floor, and held in a choke hold by a teacher. …

Safety Law News for December 6, 2021

— In Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals ruled that a school did not violate the rights of two students by suspending them for their speech and conduct in bullying their fellow team members on a school-sponsored team.  The…

Safety Law News for November 30, 2021

— In Massachusetts, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts ruled that a student’s statement to a school administrator that he was going to kill his teacher was not protected speech under the First Amendment.  In reversing the lower court, the appellate…

Safety Law News for January 4th, 2021

— In Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals held that school officials were not entitled to governmental immunity from liability arising out of the death of an eight-year-old student, who took his own life after severe bullying at the…

Safety Law News for December 17, 2020

— In New Mexico, the Court of Appeals of New Mexico held that the statements of a student to an assistant principal about possessing a knife on school property were presumptively inadmissible in a delinquency proceeding.  The statute, NMSA 1978,…

Safety Law News for September 29, 2020

In Massachusetts, the United States District Court upheld the right of school officials to discipline a group of students for bullying a classmate on the SnapChat Internet application.  The court held that “one of the legal responsibilities of a school…

Safety Law News for September 4th, 2020

— In Arizona, the Court of Appeals of Arizona refused to dismiss a gross negligence case arising out of an off-campus shooting in which two students were killed.  Applying Arizona law that removed foreseeability from the duty framework, the court…

Safety Law News for July 14, 2020

— In Kentucky, the United States District Court ruled that school police had probable cause to arrest a parent for terroristic threatening in the second degree.  The parent, in anger, told a school administrator, “[i]f you let bullies run your…