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Abstract: 

The editors review recent court decisions directly affecting college and university administration, discipline, and safety: In a free speech case, a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton sued the University after he was dismissed from the school’s Social Work program for placing posters at a campus building accusing the University’s housing director of discrimination against African-American renters; the 7th Circuit upheld the search of a dorm room when a student was found to be in violation of Indiana University rules relating to drugs; the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important Fourth Amendment ruling that establishes principles regarding searches of cell phone content, a ruling that will apply to campus police arrests and investigations; and a case from Michigan in which a student’s offensive and sexually explicit descriptions of a professor, recorded in a day book required for a writing class, and which, when it came to the professor’s attention, led to the student’s suspension, was ruled not to be protected under the First Amendment.

Keywords: Massena v. Bronstein; Medlock v. Trustees of Indiana University; Riley v. California; Chimel v. California; Robinson v. United States; Corlett v. Oakland Univ. Board of Trustees

Affiliations:  1: Editor; 2: Editor.