T. L. O Case Study

There were several appearances in court for this case, which resulted in three rulings, the last one being in the Supreme Court. The Dallas Texas court threw out the case on the conclusion that the plaintiffs had no right to sue. Then Roe's lawyers went to their first appeals court, which ruled on June 17, 1970 that the Does had no right to sue but Jane Roe and Dr. Hallford had a reasonable case with the right to sue.

T.L.O. and The New Jersey State School system.T.L.O.was found in the lavatory smoking by a teacher and was brought to the Vice Principal's office. The vice principal searched her purse and found illegal substances and turned them into the legal authority after contacting them and her mother. The student claimed that it goes against the fourth amendment because it was an illegal search and seizure. Their dispute was whether the school had the right to search and take illegal substances found when they do search the students.The case got to the supreme court by appeals through the lower court systems because it dealt with the interpretation of the fourth amendment.

What did the appellate court rule? Did it agree with the trial court (affirm) or disagree (reverse)?

1) What were the legal issues in this case? What did the appeals court decide?

T.L.O went to the supreme court and said her purse was searched and seized unlawfully by a school official. She stated that her purse was searched without the involvement of law enforcement officials. Therefore should not be allowed in as evidence at the juvenile court proceedings.

New Jersey v. T.L.O. is an interesting case that took place in New Jersey around this area. In Piscataway High School, two girls were caught smoking cigarettes in the bathroom. One of them, which is referred to as T.L.O. At the school, smoking in the restrooms was a violation of school rules. They were caught and were escorted to the assistant vice principal. Through a meeting, an unwarranted search of T.L.O.’s purses leads to an incriminating searched and confession. T.L.O, found it unfair that they could search her for other items unrelated. She filed suit against the juvenile court to state that they can’t used that form of evidence to convict her. The juvenile court found Choplick’s search to be constitutional. T.L.O appealed to the New Jersey Supreme court and there they had a different opinion. The

The issue here becomes whether the court’s decision was the right one or if they could have come up with a different decision had the case been studied from different perspectives making the decision wrong. Both arguments (for and against the Court’s decision) are discussed below, but I personally believe that court’s decision was the only right one to make.

Scott’s second set of attorney’s, Alexander P. Field and David N. Hall filed the appeal in hopes of another hearing being denied, so the case could be elevated to the United States Supreme Court. For Example, they

     Once the arguments were done, there was nothing left to do but wait as the justices debated the issue among themselves and issued a written opinion, probably in four or five months. The traditional process called for the justices to listen to oral arguments on Monday through Thursday, then to take preliminary votes and assign opinion authorships during a private meeting – again attended only by the justices – on Friday. Based on the political makeup of the Supreme Court in the spring of 1966, it was widely speculated that a majority would come down in some form on the side of Ernest Miranda.

What was the court’s decision in the case? What reason did they give? What landmark case did they cite?

The Court attempted audit of the case by means of cert and heard the case on March 24, 1969. The case began in the Maryland State Trial Court and was checked on by the Maryland State Appellate Court before coming to the U.S. Preeminent Court.

The state challenged that decision by taking it to the state Supreme Court where they found more sympathy.

A landmark case in United States Law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States,

When Roe v. Wade reached the Supreme Court, it received great interest from all over the country. On December 13, 1971 the case was first argued in front of the judges, but on this day only seven judges were present. The seven judges present decided that this case was so important that the case needed to be reargued when the two new judges were present in the Court. On October 10, 1972 the lawyers repeated their arguments to all 9 of the Supreme Court judges and on January 22, 1973 the decision was made (Brannen and Hanes, 2001).

Given the recent organizational changes and the way there were executed, I think is better for both TIBCO and myself that I step aside and look for other career opportunities. Please accept this letter as my notice of resignation effective July 15th, 2015.