Courtside: Hot, sexy - and safer?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-94

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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1. Because of constraints of space and scheduling, the program was given twice in the same day: once for grades 9 and 10 and once for grades 11 and 12.
2. The "facts" in this case, as in other cases that we have covered in which an appellate court is reviewing a dismissal or other dispositive ruling prior to the evidentiary phase of a trial, are allegations that are accepted as true merely for the purpose of testing the ruling.
3. Brown v. Hot, Sexy, and Safer Productions, Inc., 68 F.3d 525 (1st Cir. 1995), cert, denied, 116 S. Ct. 1044 (1996). I obtained supplementary information via telephone interviews in early June 1996 with attorneys John Roberts and John Foskett, who represented the plaintiff families and the defendant school officials respectively.
4. See, for example, Smith v. Ricci, 446 A.2d 501 (N.J. 1982), appeal dismissed, 459 U.S. 962 (1982); Citizens for Parental Rights v. San Mateo County Bd. of Educ., 124 Cal. Rptr. 68 (Ct. App. 1976), appeal dismissed, 425 U.S. 908 (1976); Hobolth v. Greenway, 218 N.W.2d 98 (Mich. App. 1974); and Medeiros v. Kiyosaki, 478 P.2d 314 (Hawaii 1970).
5. Coleman v. Caddo Parish Sch. Bd., 635 So.2d 1238 (La. App. 1994), appeal denied, 639 So.2d 1171 (La. 1995) (interpreted and applied limitations in state statute).
6. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, "A Case of Condoms," Phi Delta Kappan, December 1992, pp. 347-48.
7. For a recent reversal in this case, see Alfonso v. Fernandez, 606 N.Y.S.2d 259 (Sup. Ct. App. Div. 1993). In contrast, for a more recent decision that upheld condom distribution, see Curtis v. School Committee, 652 N.E.2d 580 (Mass. 1995), cert, denied, 116 S. Ct. 753 (1996).
8. Ware v. Valley Stream Sch. Dist., 551 N.Y.S.2d 167 (1989) (remand to determine whether the AIDS curriculum had a significant burden on this close-knit religious community and, if so, whether the government had a compelling justification for it).
9. In the analogous area of teacher use of sexually suggestive classroom content, compare the recent decisions in Hosford v. School Committee, 659 N.E.2d 1178 (Mass. 1996); and Williams v. Concordia Parish School Board, 670 So.2d 351 (La. App. 1996).
10. Compare Perry A. Zirkel, "A Doomed Prayer for Relief," Phi Delta Kappan, February 1995, pp. 496-97.