DOE v. WORCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS

SJC-12827.

484 Mass. 598 (2020)

JANE DOE, v. WORCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

April 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paige L. Tobin ( Elizabeth F. Toner also present) for the defendants.

Amy DiDonna for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael J. Long & Steven J. Finnegan for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, Inc., & another.

Rhoda E. Schneider , Special Assistant Attorney General, & Iraida J. Álvarez for Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Peter A. Hahn for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Sky Kochenour & Jenny C. Chou for Center for Law and Education, Inc., & another.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


The plaintiff, Jane Doe, a student at a public high school in Worcester, was suspended for 152 school days after an assistant principal found a small amount of marijuana and two makeshift pipes in the plaintiff's locker. When the plaintiff appealed from her suspension to the superintendent, the district's school safety director, acting...

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