Chatelain v. Payzant

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that search of plastic bag in side pocket of student's purse exceeded scope necessary to determine if student had weapon
• stating that scope of school search for weapon should be similar to search permitted for weapon pursuant to Terry stop
• “When student safety is an issue [as in a weapons search], the reasonableness of a search should weigh heavily in favor of the school official”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).