Sandra Remer, Parent of a Minor Son, M.R. v. Burlington Area School District, Larry Anderson, William C. Campbell

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• recognizing that an abuse of power is arbitrary if it shocks the conscience and the plaintiff demonstrates that the official conduct is unjustifiable by any governmental interest
• noting in the context of a high school expulsion that due process requires a meaningful opportunity to be heard
• expulsion proceedings need not take the form of “a judicial or quasi-judicial trial”
• expulsion proceedings need not take the form of “a judicial or quasi-judicial trial”
• “[W]hen a penalty that is tantamount to expulsion is involved, the school No. 11-6476 G.C. v. Owensboro Pub. Sch. et al. Page 11 authority must afford the student an opportunity to present evidence and argument in mitigation.”

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