Jane Wettach pleads at the North Carolina Supreme Court

The North Carolina Supreme Court in March is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a Beaufort County-based lawsuit that could affect the future of students who are suspended from public schools for long periods of time across North Carolina and the local school boards that hand down such suspensions.

At issue is the right of students who receive long-term suspensions to have access to an alternative education during their time away from school. Existing state law leaves such access to the discretion of local school boards. (...)
“More than 5,000 students in North Carolina were suspended from school long-term last year, excluded entirely from both the regular school building and alternative school. ... Unless the school system can show that this banishment was necessary to promote a compelling governmental interest, it directly offends our Constitution,” writes Jane Wettach, a lawyer for the students, in an appellate brief to the Supreme Court. (...)

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Staatsanwalt Udo Wettach: Milde für unreifen Bankräuber

Täter hat von Sparkassenangestellter 1 000 Euro haben wollen - Freiheitsstrafe zur Bewährung ausgesetzt Die schwersten Vorwürfe, die ihm Staatsanwalt Uwe Wettach machte, waren die enorme psychische Belastung, die er der Bankangestellten aufgebürdet hat, sowie das Risiko, mit seiner Spielzeugwaffe andere zur Benutzung von Waffen herausfordern zu können. Denn mit einer Spielzeugpistole hatte sich Sven T. ausgerüstet, sie aber nie gezeigt und eingesetzt. Der Staatsanwalt fühlte sich angesichts der Unreife des Mannes ungewohnt ein Stück in der Verteidigerrolle und sagte: "Er hat sich mit der Tat selbst bestraft." Seinem Strafvorschlag schlossen sich Verteidigung und Gericht an.

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February 18.: Jane Wettach at the Key School Workshop on Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law

Key School Workshop on Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Carolina Day School, Hendersonville Road, Asheville. The Key Learning Center sponsors a community outreach seminar, "Dyslexia, ADHD, and the Law." Dr. James G. Ward, Jr., a pediatrician and a member of the board of the International Dyslexia Association and Jane Wettach, clinical professor of law and director of the Children's Education Law Clinic of Duke University Law School, lead the program. Appropriate for teachers, tutors, parents and administrators. Call Mary Anna Phillips at 274-3311, e-mail mphillips@cdschool.org or visit www.cdschool.org/academics/keyschool.php.

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