Rogers v. Gooding Public Joint School District No. 231

TROUT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting a writ of prohibition and mandamus prohibiting the school district from expelling two students.

I

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On September 24, 1998, Brian Brown, a student at Gooding High School, had a pellet gun in his car parked on school grounds. During the lunch hour, Clint Rogers, a fellow student, took the pellet gun from Brown’s car and fired the gun in the parking lot of the school. The projectile struck another student, inflicting a superficial wound. Shortly after the incident, Brown and Rogers (collectively the…