Carney v. City of Richmond

By Judge Melvin R. Hughes, Jr.

In a Petition to Review the Action of the School Board of the City of Richmond, the mother of a student enrolled in a Richmond public school seeks a review of a decision of the Disciplinary Board of the School Board. The Board transferred the student from John Marshall High School to Thomas Jefferson High School. Following argument by counsel at a hearing before the court on October 12, 2006, the court took the case under advisement to complete reading the transcript of the hearing appealed from.

The background involves a physical altercation between a number of…