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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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