Milligan v. City of Slidell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding it was constitutional to detain students “without particularized suspicion that any of them had engaged in or was about to engage in criminal misconduct.”
• characterizing protecting students, fostering self-discipline and deterring possible violence as compelling governmental interests
• analyzing the conduct of police officers under the same special needs analysis
• same, when officials detained students in an office for “ten to fifteen minutes” to question them about a reported violent fight on school grounds
• “Students at school . . . have a significantly lesser expectation of privacy in regard to the temporary ‘seizure’ of their persons than does the general population.”
• detention and questioning of students reasonable when school officials had reasonable suspicion that a fight was about to occur, even absent individualized suspicion that any one of them had engaged in or was about to engage in criminal behavior

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).