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WOOD v. HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Record No. 970727.

495 S.E.2d 255 (1998)

Brian E. WOOD, By and Through His Next Friends, Larry E. WOOD and LaVonne W. Wood v. HENRY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 9, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

(R. Reid Young, III; Kimberly D. Richardson, on brief), Richmond, for appellant.

Kathleen S. Mehfoud (Brian R. Greene; Hazel & Thomas, on brief), Richmond, for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, HASSELL, KEENAN, KOONTZ and KINSER, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.

HASSELL, Justice:

I.

The primary issue we consider in this appeal is whether a public school division, which expelled a student who violated the school division's code of student conduct, violated that student's due process rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.1

II.

In March 1996, Brian Edmond Wood, then a 10th-grade student at Bassett High School

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