Legal Opinion
Dennis Harry Mitchell v. Board of Trustees of Oxford Municipal Separate School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 11, 1980No. 80-3167PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge.
Dennis Mitchell and Leon Coleman, together with their mothers as next friends, brought this action for injunctive and declaratory relief and for damages against the Oxford Municipal Separate School District (hereafter the School Board) and its members. The plaintiffs alleged that their substantive due process rights were violated by application of a School Board policy which mandates the automatic expulsion 1 of “[a]ny student who brings a knife or any other object which would be classified as a weapon to school . . . .” Final judgment was entered for the defendants.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Goss v. LopezSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Ingraham v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Wood v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- St. John Dixon v. Alabama State Board of EducationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Hassan Ex Rel. Hassan v. Lubbock Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995
- Wells v. Panola County Bd. of Educ.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1994
- Daniel Wise v. Pea Ridge School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
- Gomes v. University of Maine SystemDistrict Court, D. Maine · 2004
- Wood Ex Rel. Wood v. Henry County Public SchoolsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1998
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