Goss v. Lopez
- Decided
- January 22, 1975
- Docket
- 73-898
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- holding that 10-day suspension from school triggered procedural due process because it was not de minimus — Dill v. City Of Edmond (1998)
- concluding that, in the absence of an emergency, public high school students cannot be suspended without the opportunity for a hearing — (untitled) (2000)
- holding that students temporarily suspended from public school have a property and liberty interest that qualifies them for protection under the Due Process Clause — Vassallo Ex Rel. K v. v. Lando (2008)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
[*567] MR. Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal by various administrators of the Columbus, Ohio, Public School System (CPSS) challenges the judgment of a three-judge federal court, declaring that appellees — various high school students in the CPSS— were denied due process of law contrary to the command of the Fourteenth Amendment in that they were temporarily suspended from their high schools without a hearing either prior to suspension or within a reasonable time thereafter, and enjoining the administrators to remove all references to such suspensions from the students' records.
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Statutes cited
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983
- 28 U.S.C. § 2281
- 20 U.S.C. § 1232g
Cite this
Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 (1975)Read the full opinion
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