Legal Opinion
Wood v. Strickland
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 14, 1975No. 73-1285PublishedCited by 2,174 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
Respondents Peggy Strickland and Virginia Crain brought this lawsuit against petitioners, who were members of the school board at the time in question, two school administrators, and the Special School District of Mena, Ark.,1 purporting to assert a cause of action *310under 42 U. S. C. § 1983, and claiming that their federal constitutional rights to due process were infringed under color of state law by their expulsion from the Mena Public High School on the grounds of their violation of a school regulation prohibiting the use or possession of intoxicating beverages at school or school…
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