Supreme Court of California

School officials may detain a minor student on school grounds in the absence of reasonable suspicion of criminal activity or violation of a school rule, so long as such authority is not exercised in an arbitrary, capricious, or harassing manner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2001
• Published 08/13/2001

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Robert S. Gerstein, Santa Monica, under appointment by the Supreme Court;  and Michele A. Douglass, Long Beach, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.,  Mark D. Rosenbaum, Los Angeles, for American Civil Liberties Union as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., John T. Philipsborn, San Francisco, for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, William T. Harter, Joana Perez Castille, Donald E. De Nicola and Richard S. Moskowitz, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Parker & Covert, Spencer E. Covert, Tustin, and Barbara J. Ginsberg, Santa Ana, for California School Boards Association's Education Legal Alliance and California Association of Supervisors of Child Welfare and Attendance as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.