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The 2nd Circuit wrongly holds that public-school officials can constitutionally prohibit a student?s attempt to clear his name

By Alliance Alert

Julie Hilden writing at FindLaw: "The case was DeFabio v. East Hampton Union Free School Dist., and the student, Daniel DeFabio, had sued the school and individual school officials -- including the Principal and Superintendent -- under a federal statute that allows civil suits to be brought for damages caused by violations of constitutional rights (including First Amendment rights) . . . In dismissing the suit, the appellate panel allowed public-school students to be effectively rendered unable to timely defend themselves against allegations made by their classmates -- even when those very allegations are causing their classmates and others in the community to contemplate violence against them."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).