HENRY COUNTY BD. OF EDUC. v. S.G.

S16G1700.

804 S.E.2d 427 (2017)

HENRY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, v. S.G.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: August 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Megan Murrell Pearson , A. J. Welch, Jr., SMITH WELCH WEBB & WHITE, LLC, P.O. Box 10, McDonough, Georgia 30253, Santana Tarail Flanigan , ROCKDALE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 954 North Main Street, Conyers, Georgia 30012, for Appellant.

Michael Joseph Tafelski , GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM, 104 Marietta Street, Suite 240, Lisa Jane Krisher , Phyllis J. Holmen, GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM, 104 Marietta Street, N.W., Suite 250, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, Robert Lawrence Ashe, III , BONDURANT, MIXSON & ELMORE, LLP, 3900 One Atlantic Center, 1201 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, for Appellee.

Nathan Thomas Lee , Glover & Davis, P.A., 10 Brown Street, Newnan, Georgia 30263, John Byrd Garland , SMITH, WELCH, WEBB & WHITE, LLC, 117 Brookwood Avenue, Jackson, Georgia 30233, Ross Henry Pittman, III , REINHARDT WHITLEY SUMMERLIN & PITTMAN, P.C., 1001 N. Central Avenue, PO Drawer 1287, Tifton, Georgia 31793-1287, Patrick Shepherd Shepherd , Shepherd Law Offices, LLC, P.O. Box 767, Griffin, Georgia 30224, W. Kent Campbell , PO Box 186, Covington, Georgia 30015-0186, Phillip L. Hartley , Brian C. Smith , HARBEN, HARTLEY & HAWKINS, LLP, Wells Fargo Center, Suite 750, 340 Jesse Jewell Parkway , Gainesville, Georgia 30501, for Amicus Appellant.

Randall J. Butterfield , Chad Andrew Peterson , King & Spalding LLP, 1180 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, Angela Marie Coggins , HOUSTON JUDICIAL, CIRCUIT PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE, P.O. Box 474, 201 Perry Parkway, Perry, Georgia 31069, Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore , MERCER LAW SCHOOL, 1021 Georgia Avenue, Macon, Georgia 31207, Randee J. Waldman , THE BARTON JUVENILE DEFENDER CLINIC, 1301 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers , James C. Bonner, Jr. , GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER STANDARDS COUNCIL, Suite 600, 104 Marietta Street, Brandon Alexander Bullard , GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER COUNCIL, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 400, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Amicus Appellee.


This case involves the expulsion by the Henry County Board of Education ("Local Board") of then-high school student S.G. as discipline for fighting on school grounds in violation of the student handbook. Specifically, she was charged with physically abusing others (in violation of Section 2, item 4 of the handbook) and with a violation...

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