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|Joseph Schaedler, Arun Manroa, Ojas T. Choksi
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|Nextel Communications Inc.
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This application is related to U.S. application Ser. No. 11/746,197, entitled "A MULTIMODAL GATEWAY FUNCTION FOR VOICE ENABLING FROM FIELDS", filed on even date herewith. The content of the above-referenced application is incorporated herein by reference.
The Internet has made it possible to access web sites to obtain information and conduct transactions using a browser. Browsers interpret and display web pages typically written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Recently web pages and browsers have been designed to provide a multimodal capability that includes a voice functionality for accessing and interacting with web pages. This is achieved by combining eXtensible HyperText markup Language (XHTML) with voice enablement markup language (Voice XML). Web pages and browsers that are compatible with this combination are typically referred to a X+V enabled.
While X+V enabled web pages and browsers make it easier to browse web pages on communication units with limited input mechanisms, such as the common twelve button keypad of voice communication units, there has been only limited adoption of X+V technology. Specifically, X+V technology typically requires web pages to be written in the X+V language and browsers must be capable of interpreting this language. Yet many, if not most, web pages today are written in basic HTML. Likewise, many communication units do not have the capability of interpreting web pages written in the X+V language. Therefore the ability to use voice and related multimodal technology still remains unavailable for many users.
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention overcome the above-identified and other deficiencies of conventional communication units by allowing voice interaction with non-voice enabled web pages and browsers. This voice interaction can be achieved using a software and/or hardware plug-in module. The voice interaction can include, for example, filling-in form fields on a web page using voice.
In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a plug-in can receive a web page, modify an attribute of the web page and provide the web page with the modified attribute to an application, such as a web browser. The plug-in can receive voice information for a form field of the web page, provide the voice information to a speech recognition server, and receive text from the speech recognition server. The plug-in can provide the text into one or more form fields, and the form field information can be provided as text to a web server.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
Display 115 can be any type of display capable of providing, among other things, a visual indication of documents received from web server 155. Although display 115 is illustrated as a component of communication unit 105, an external display can be coupled to communication unit 105 in addition to, or as an alternative to, a display being a component of communication unit 105. Input device 120 can be a keypad, keyboard, trackwheel, trackpad, mouse and/or the like for inputting information into communication unit 105. Audio input 125 can be, for example, a microphone for receiving any type of audible information, such as voice, recorded audio, or any other type of audio. Transceiver 128 can be any type of transceiver that is capable of allowing communication unit 105 to communicate with network 135.
Processor 160 includes web browser 127 and plug-in 129. Processor 160 can be a microprocessor, field programmable gate array (FPGA), and/or application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). When processor 160 is a microprocessor, the processor can load processor executable code from a memory for performing the functions of the elements illustrated as being included in the processor. Plug-in 129 can be a hardware and/or software component that includes processor-executable code for execution by processor 160. When plug-in 129 is a hardware component, it need not necessarily be a component of processor 160, but instead can be a separate component that interacts with processor 160. When the plug-in is a software plug-in, it can be a Java or Brew-based application or a browser extension. As illustrated in
The communication channel between communication unit 105 and the network gateway 130 can be established using any one of various known types of communication channels. For example, in one embodiment the speech can be transported over a channel setup between communication unit 105 and network gateway 130 using push to talk (PTT) signaling, in which case the speech transport channel is setup using a PTT signaling protocol. PTT provides a half duplex transport, i.e., a transport that allows for voice and/or data transmission in just one direction at a time. In an alternate embodiment, the speech can be transported over a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) channel setup between communication unit 105 and network gateway 130 using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling, in which case the speech transport channel is setup using a SIP signaling protocol. A VoIP channel allows for routing of audible information over the Internet or through any other IP-based network. VoIP provides a two way full duplex channel, i.e., a channel that allows for simultaneous voice and/or data transmission in both directions. The words "speech" and "voice" can be used interchangeably in this description.
Communication unit 105 has a "legacy" browser that is a non-voice enabled browser that recognizes only standard HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The browser does not understand the XHTML+Voice profiles that are required for a more spoken and visual interaction. Hence, during the loading of the web page the plug-in intercepts the page and once a form field is recognized on a web page, the plug-in formats the form field in accordance with the structure of the web page language, i.e. its syntax, that the legacy browser understands, which is the HTML format. The purpose of the syntax change is to give the user a visual indication that the form field has been voice enabled. Visual indications may included color coding, font changes, adding small image tags etc.
Continuing further with reference to the call flow diagram of
The user then selects a form field to fill-in using input device 120, which provides the selection of the form field to plug-in 129 (step 309). Plug-in 129 identifies the form field type and sends a message with a tag that corresponds to the identified type to transceiver 128 (step 311), which forwards the message to speech recognition server 145 (step 312). Speech recognition server uses the tag to request a particular set of grammars from grammars storage 137 (step 315), which provides the grammars to speech recognition server 145 (step 316).
Plug-in 129 interjects itself between the input device and the browser. This allows the plug-in to know when and which form field a user selects. If the user selects a form field that was formatted/tagged by the plug-in (formatted and visually "tagged" to be recognized by the user as voice enabled), the plug-in takes control of the input and starts the process of voice recognition. However, if the user selects a form field that is not formatted or is un-tagged, then the plug-in transparently passes the user's input (a non-voice input) to the browser.
The use of particular tags for particular sets of grammars provides enhanced speech recognition capability. For example, particular tags can be used to retrieve grammars for form fields such as "name", "zip code", "telephone number", "address", etc.
Once the grammars are loaded into speech recognition server 145, an indicator (not illustrated) can be provided to the user of communication unit 105 to indicate that the system is ready to accept voice input. This indicator could be, for example, by a "go" signal appearing on display 115, or by an audible "beep", or by any other well known ways for giving such an indication to the user.
The user then provides audio to audio input 125, which in turn provides the audio to plug-in 129 (step 317). Logic 164 of plug-in 129 receives the audio and provides the audio to transceiver 128 (step 318), which sends the audio to speech recognition server 145 (step 319).
Turning now to
Although exemplary embodiments have been described in connection with documents retrieved from a web server, the present invention is equally applicable to documents retrieved from any type of server. The plug-in module of the present invention allows communication units that are not provided with voice-enabled web browsing to perform such web browsing, which is particularly advantageous due to the large number of communication units that are not provided with voice-enabled web browsing functionality. Moreover, because the plug-in does not actually convert the web pages into a voice enabled format, but instead modifies attributes of the web page and interacts with the browser and voice recognition server, the plug-in can be much smaller and simpler than a program that converts web pages into an X+V enabled format.
The foregoing disclosure has been set forth merely to illustrate the invention and is not intended to be limiting. Since modifications of the disclosed embodiments incorporating the spirit and substance of the invention may occur to persons skilled in the art, the invention should be construed to include everything within the scope of the appended claims and equivalents thereof.
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Myst was a ground-breaking point-and-click adventure game created by Cyan Worlds, made of hundreds of beautifully rendered scenes whose combined size made the game so big that it needed a CD-ROM to play, back when many computers didn't have them. It was the first breakout hit in PC gaming and from its release in 1993 it held the title of best-selling PC game until 2002 when The Sims surpassed it.
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Poverty continues to afflict many in the industrial city of Ludhiana. While the world would observe International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, 30-year-old Kashi Ram, a rag-picker who lives in a slum near Sherpur Chowk, would be scavenging through the many garbage dumpsters of the city to feed his family of a wife and two children.
With a mere earning of Rs 2000 a month, Ram says lack of money has been such that he and his family cannot even afford three square meals a day. Originally hailing from Bihar, Kashi and his wife Sunita have been living in the Sherpur Chowk slum for four years now. "We have lost four children to poor health," says Ram. "We could not afford their treatment."
Ram's wife Sunita is suffering from anaemia, a condition caused by iron deficiency in the body. Though the Centre-sponsored Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana - National Health Insurance Programme - provides for health insurance for people living below the poverty line (BPL), not many who are eligible for the benefit are aware of it.
Even a state government-sponsored scheme for providing wheat flour and rice at subsidised rates to BPL families has not helped Ram. "We aren't aware of any such scheme," he says.
Kashi Bai, an 80-year-old woman living in the same slum for 20 years now, too has not benefitted from any scheme for the poor. "We don't have any card to get wheat and pulses at low rates, so sometimes we eat food with pickle or salt," says Bai.
Bai is blind and suffering from multiple health problems. "But medical teams only visit us during polio drives. Otherwise, no health official visits our area to educate us or conduct medical check-ups," she says.
Bai's son Mohan Lal is 52, but looks like a 70-year-old because of malnutrition and ill-health. Lal works at a cremation ground, but earns only that when a body comes there. Asked if he has benefitted from any government-sponsored scheme, he answers with a no: "I am unaware of any scheme for the poor. It is not rare for our children to sleep on an empty stomach."
Deputy commissioner Rajat Agarwal was not available for comment. However, contacted, district family welfare officer Dr Maninder Singh said they were providing folic acid tablets to anaemic women from the economically weaker section. "We do visit slums to create awareness. Anyone living there and requiring medical aid can visit nearby dispensaries," he said.


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Immanuel Kant's vision of a federation of peaceful nations must have seemed like a distant dream from his idyllic Prussian village. Indeed after his death in 1804, wars would blight the continent of Europe shattering entire political systems and the millions of lives of Europeans aching for some semblance of peace and tranquillity in their lives.
The Second World War was the catastrophic consequence of this fractured nature of European states and that dream of one European, of a peaceful federation (not in a literal sense) has been realised. However much we may complain about the arrogance of the French, the almost admirable but no less equally annoying efficiency of the Germans it doesn't change the fact that Europe has been a bastion of peace for 67 years and we have all prospered materially and culturally because of it.
The migrations that we all take every year to some European country allow us not only to enjoy the sun which we tend to see little of but also to enjoy the culture and diversity that Europe has to offer. Whether that be the Arc de Triomphe (pictured) of France, the antiquity of Roman monuments or the Gothic masterpieces of Prague, we are free as Europeans to indulge in our European heritage.
Forgive me for my heady idealism but that is what Europe is, an idea. Of course from a more pragmatic viewpoint issues such as immigration, lack of democracy at institutional level and the technocratic nature of the EU need to be addressed but that cannot be done by mere technicality alone. Indeed a block of wood is a block of wood until it is fashioned into a beautiful chair by our ideas.
This is what must be done; Europe can only truly address these issues through a new idea of Europe instead of through the hard-wired minds of technocrats. We must also stay in this union due to the rise of such countries as China, India and Brazil. These countries pose massive structural risks not only to our own power position but also to the world.
As an Englishman who is proud of this 'little island of coal surrounded by fish', to quote Aneurin Bevan, I must not be blighted by creeping xenophobia and withdraw from Europe and beyond. Indeed it was men of this country hundreds of years ago who took their ships out beyond the horizon and founded a new world.
It is that attitude we must take, and lead Europe through its quagmire of financial crises and mediocrity. Our British and European ancestors of old would expect nothing less than for us than to act in concert with our European brothers and sisters.
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Prince Harry has reportedly moved into his girlfriend's London home after he recently reunited with her after breaking up last year.
He is said to have received his own set of keys to girlfriend Chelsy Davey's £1.5 million (NZ$3.4 million) three-bedroom apartment in London's upmarket Belgravia neighbourhood, reports The Sun.
Harry, 25, is said to stay in the apartment with his royal protection officers when he has weekends away from his Army Air Corps helicopter training.
Before the move, Harry stayed at Prince Charles Clarence House but sources say that Harry felt his quarters were "too cramped" says News.com.au.
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Finally, I'm able to jailbreak and unlock an iPhone again after months of watching from the sidelines as new model iPhones with enhanced operating systems were rolled out by Apple. You see, I'm still stuck with my old First Gen iPhone. Too bad, the latest and greatest iOS4 isn't backward compatible with mine, so it looks like I'll be stuck with my OS 3.1.2!
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Mansbridge Slams Information Secrecy in Canada
Posted on 14 Jun, 2014
By Ryan Hicks
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's chief correspondent and anchor of The National, decried a "culture of secrecy" within Canada's public institutions at a speech in Winnipeg.
"That's why we're here. To break this culture of secrecy," said Peter Mansbridge on Friday at a conference co-sponsored by the CBC and the University of Winnipeg called "Holding Power to Account," an international conference on investigative journalism, democracy, and human rights.
It's death by a thousand cuts. And we're bleeding.
He recalled a headline in the Toronto Star back in April that read, "What the public is not allowed to know. Public information being kept secret." That headline, he said, was not about blocked access to public information in countries notorious for their secrecy, but about his own country.
"Not China. Not North Korea. Canada," he said.
Mansbridge made his remarks exactly one week after the 70th anniversary of D-Day, when thousands of soldiers died on the beaches of northern France in World War 2 ultimately leading to the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. "They died for freedom and one of the pillars of freedom is openness. It's a free and open media. A media that doesn't accept. A media that pushes for freedom, for openness," he told the 320 delegates from 15 countries.
Public institutions cloaked in secrecy, which keep public information in the dark, "is not what those guys died for on those beaches," he said.
"We're at a critical point"
Mansbridge also criticized recent cuts to investigative journalism, including those to the investigative program Enquête. The award-winning program airs on Radio-Canada (the French version of the CBC). He said it could lose one-fifth of its staff. The CBC also made cuts to its investigative team in the same round of layoffs, although not to the same extent, he pointed out.
"My company, my corporation, the CBC, the public broadcaster who has a mandated interest in investigative journalism. Who boasts that we have more investigative journalists that any media organization. This is where we're cutting back?" he asked.
"We should be investing more in these programs. Not cutting them."
Enquête is credited with exposing corruption in Quebec politics and the construction industry, which included ties between the Mafia, politicians, and union bosses.
"Without Enquête, it would be very likely everyone in that scandal would be carrying on as if nothing was wrong," he said.
It is not only CBC/Radio-Canada that is facing tough choices. All news organizations are facing cutbacks acknowledged Mansbridge. And the current situation has him worried.
"It's death by a thousand cuts. And we're bleeding."
Ryan Hicks is a CBC Reporter and part of the Transparency International IACC Young Journalists Initiative.
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The Playstation 3 did not come bundled with a headset, in doing so hardly any people have a headset for a PS3. And the people that do have them never use them because nobody else has them, if that makes sense. I've played my fair share of online games, 60 hours in Black Ops, 20 in GTA, 40 in MGO, 20 in U2 and a whole bunch of U3. I've never in all ofd that time met the stereotypical 360 12 year old mouthing off. I've met a few dudes like that but there doing it in good humour and are generally being friendly.
Today however I got in to matches with almost everybody mic'd up and swearing like you wouldn't belive. There was talk of peoples mothers, a lot of sexual talk and raping of 4 year old girls. But then I put a microphone on, a really clear Turtle Beach, and as soon as I started talking I was bombarded with insults because my mic was so good. What was funny was I proceeded to come first in the next few matches, but then they said I was cheating and they were too busy doing stuff to my mother.
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POLOZOLA, Chief Judge.
This case requires the Court to balance the right of school officials and a school board to properly discipline, protect and educate its students against the First, Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment protections claimed by a student. To fully understand the legal and factual issues involved, it is necessary to set forth the procedural and factual background leading up to the filing of this suit. The Court must also determine how far a federal court must and should involve itself in school disciplinary matters, particularly where the security of the students, staff and school facilities are at issue and the education of the students in a safe environment for learning is of primary importance.
I. Background
A. Procedural Background
On March 15, 2002, Adam Porter and his brother Andrew Porter Breen, filed this suit against the Ascension Parish School Board; Robert Cloutare, in his official capacity as Superintendent of the Ascension Parish School Board; Conrad Braud, both individually and in his official capacity as Principal of East Ascension High School; and Linda Wilson, both individually and in her official capacity as Principal of Galvez Middle School.
The Court dismissed the equal protection, Eighth Amendment, and 20 U.S.C. § 1415 claims without objection.
B. Factual Background
The facts which precede the filing of this suit are not in dispute.
When Adam was approximately 14 years old, he drew a sketch of East Ascension
Two years after the drawing was made, Adam and Andrew were both students in the Ascension Parish school system. Adam attended EAHS and Andrew attended Galvez Middle School. On March 15, 2001, Andrew brought a sketch pad to school containing numerous drawings, including Adam's drawing of EAHS which was described above. While riding home from school on the school bus that day, Andrew allowed a fellow student to see the sketch pad. While reviewing the pad, the student discovered Adam's drawing of EAHS. The student immediately showed Adam's drawing to Diane McCauley, the bus driver and told the driver: "Miss Diane, look, they're going to blow up EAHS." McCauley immediately confiscated the sketch pad. On the following morning, McCauley took the pad to Linda Wilson, the Principal of Galvez Middle School and Myles Bourque, the in-school suspension coordinator. After the school officials saw the drawing, Andrew was called to the office and questioned by Wilson and Bourque. They also searched his book bag. In response to their questions, Andrew told the school administrators that his brother Adam had drawn the sketch a few years earlier. Andrew was suspended for possessing the drawing on the school campus. Wilson and Bourque immediately brought the picture to EAHS.
Following the search and interview, Braud recommended that Adam be expelled from EAHS and sent to an alternative school. Officer Rhodes read Adam his Miranda rights and arrested him on
II. Law and Analysis
A. Standard for Summary Judgment
Summary judgment should be granted if the record, taken as a whole, "together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law."
If the moving party meets this burden, Rule 56(c) requires the nonmovant to go beyond the pleadings and show by affidavits, depositions, answers to interrogatories, admissions on file, or other admissible evidence that specific facts exist over which there is a genuine issue for trial.
B. Constitutional Claims
The Court now turns to a discussion of the various constitutional claims asserted by the plaintiffs and the defenses raised by the defendants.
1. First Amendment
The United States Supreme Court has issued a series of opinions which set forth guidelines the Court and others must follow in regulating student expression in public schools. These cases include Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist.,
In the case now pending before the Court, this Court must determine whether First Amendment protection should be given to a student who brings a graphic and violent drawing to school that depicts a public school being soaked with gasoline, while a missile is aimed at it, with obscene and racial expletives written on the drawing, and students holding guns and throwing a brick at the principal. In determining whether this drawing is entitled to the First Amendment protections claimed by the plaintiff, it is necessary to review certain events which preceded the defendants' actions. Prior to and during the period involved, school officials, students and parents were exposed to horrific news stories depicting students who went on shooting rampages and committed other acts of violence on school campuses. The most notable story was the attack at Columbine High School in April 1999, where a tragic shooting occurred resulting in many deaths and injuries. Many news organizations reported the large number of guns and other violent weapons being brought to school and the other acts of violence and disruptions in schools around the country. Similar acts were reported on school buses. Some schools became like war zones, and metal detectors and police officers became commonplace on high school campuses throughout the United States. Parents were justifiably concerned about the safety of their children at school and on school buses. School officials were trying to maintain an environment for students to learn while also implementing appropriate security measures. Plaintiffs have argued throughout their briefs that this Court should not consider Columbine and other similar incidents in determining the reasonableness of Ascension Parish school officials' behavior. However, school officials cannot operate in a vacuum or in a fantasy world and must be aware of the events occurring at other schools to properly protect their students and faculty. One of the keys to avoiding violence and disruption at schools is to be aware of acts which could cause such. Indeed, several of the opinions this Court relies on in this opinion mention Columbine and similar incidents in upholding the actions taken by the schools in other cases. A clear example of this is the opinion rendered in LaVine v. Blaine School Dist.,
It is against this backdrop that this Court must now decide if Adam Porter's drawing is entitled to First Amendment protection.
In resolving the First Amendment claim, this Court must first decide the standard that should be applied under the facts of
The Ninth Circuit's decision in LaVine
In dismissing some of the First Amendment claims, the Ninth Circuit applied the standard set forth in Tinker because the speech in question was neither lewd and offensive or school sponsored. Under this approach, which the Court will refer to as the pure-Tinker approach, Tinker is used on any First Amendment claim in which Fraser or Kuhlmeier is not implicated. Using this standard, the Ninth Circuit held the student's poem would not be entitled to First Amendment protection if the school could justify its decision by showing facts that might reasonably lead school authorities to forecast a substantial disruption of or material interference with school activities.
The decision rendered in Demers v. Leominster School Dept.
The final approach that can be used in these First Amendment cases comes from the Fifth Circuit's decision in Canady v. Bossier Parish School Bd.
Neither the Supreme Court nor the Fifth Circuit have specifically addressed whether drawings such as that drawn by Adam in this case are entitled to First Amendment protection. Therefore, the Court will use all three of the standards set forth above to determine if Adam's drawing is entitled to First Amendment protection. It can hardly be said that Adam's drawing was a political expression which is protected by the First Amendment. Thus, Adam's drawing is not entitled to First Amendment protection under a pure-Tinker standard. Therefore, the Court finds that the drawing "materially and substantially interferes with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of [public schools]."
Using the factors set forth in Watts,
Viewing the entire factual circumstances surrounding Adam's drawing, it was reasonable, and in this Court's opinion necessary and proper, for Ascension Parish school officials to view Adam's drawing as a true threat to the EAHS school students, faculty and facilities. A careful review of the drawing and language contained on the drawing reveals that it was reasonable for the recipients of Adam's drawing to interpret it as a serious expression of an intent to harm and cause injury or even death to others or to cause damage to the school's facilities. The drawing resulted in serious expressions of fear and concern by its recipients which included both students, administrators and a bus driver. Administrators at Galvez Middle School and EAHS said they were seriously concerned for the welfare of their other students. They were justified in having this concern. The seriousness of the threat is illustrated by the immediate response school officials from two different schools gave to Adam's drawing. Further, both Adam's and Andrew's past disciplinary records made it reasonable for school officials to believe a
Under the Fifth Circuit approach, this Court must now determine (1) whether the school's suppression of Adam's speech furthers an important or substantial government interest; (2) the interest is unrelated to the suppression of student expression, and, (3) the incidental restrictions on First Amendment activities are no more than is necessary to facilitate that interest.
Finally, plaintiffs have repeatedly argued that because Adam's drawing was done in the privacy of his own home, it is off-campus expression that school officials have no right to regulate. This contention is totally without merit. The Court has little doubt that bringing a gun from home and using it as a threat at school would not be sanctioned because the gun was loaded at home. The same can be said of the drawing. The key issue is whether the school administrators and students perceived the drawing (or gun) as a threat to their safety and security when it was discovered on the school campus or bus. The speech in Doe and LaVine were both conducted off-campus, but these Courts still approved the regulation because the drawings ultimately ended up in the hands of school administrators. The action taken in Doe was approved where the songs ended up with school officials even though the student clearly had no intent for his songs to leave his room or ever be seen by others. Adam's intent is also immaterial. It is material that his drawing ended up on a school bus and caused a danger and threat to school property, students and faculty or otherwise disrupted the education of students at two schools. Where off-campus expression leads to an interference and disruption of on-campus activities, as was done in this case, this Court cannot and should not afford such expression First Amendment protection or second-guess the action school officials take to protect their students and facilities. Indeed, the Court should give full support and approval to the actions of school administrators who take appropriate action, as was done in this case, to protect and educate their students in a disciplined environment that is safe and conducive for learning.
2. Fourth Amendment
The Court now turns to a discussion of plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment claims. The Fourth Amendment protects the "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."
Determining the reasonableness of a school official's actions involves a two-part inquiry: (1) whether the action was justified at its inception; and (2) whether the actual search was reasonably related in scope to the interference that justified the interference in the first place. A search is justified at its inception when there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search will turn up evidence that the student has violated or is violating either the law or a school rule.
The Supreme Court also addressed Fourth Amendment issues in the public school context in Vernonia School Dist. 47J v. Acton,
Courts applying these Supreme Court cases often defer to the school's decision in Fourth Amendment cases. In T.L.O., the Supreme Court held reasonable suspicion existed to search a student's purse, its inner compartments, and to read two letters and index card that revealed the student's drug-dealing habits whenever the student had been caught smoking in the bathroom.
In addition to the cases set forth above, the parties have discussed two additional cases in their briefs. In Cuesta v. School Bd. of Miami-Dade County, Fla.,
A similar result was reached in Stockton v. City of Freeport, Texas.
Under these cases, the reasonableness of the actions taken by school officials in the public school setting is usually resolved in favor of the school. When school personnel or students are threatened by a student's expression, the deference given school officials in the Fourth Amendment context is even greater. Plaintiffs have not submitted any evidence to convince this Court that it should depart from the holdings of these cases. Defendants acted properly and reasonably in searching Adam under the facts of this case. His drawing graphically illustrated what EAHS would look like if it were under siege. The profane language further indicated that this student was not pleased with EAHS and its principal and had a distinct racial bias against some of its students. Ascension Parish school officials (and the student and bus driver who discovered the drawing) were totally reasonable in believing that Adam posed an immediate danger to the faculty, students and facilities of EAHS. The search of Adam's person and book bag was necessary, justified, and clearly permitted under the cases cited above. The facts submitted with the motion for summary judgment clearly support a finding of reasonableness. Thus, defendants are entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law on plaintiff's Fourth Amendment claims under the undisputed facts of this case. The Court's decision is fully supported by the Fifth Circuit's decision in Milligan wherein the Court stated:
3. Procedural Due Process
The plaintiffs have also asserted a due process claim. The Due Process Clause prohibits the state from depriving a person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. In any procedural due process claim, the initial inquiry should always be whether a property interest or right exists.
To establish a denial of procedural due process, a student must show substantial prejudice from an inadequate procedure.
Other circuits follow the Fifth Circuit rule and have also held there is no procedural due process violation when the student admits the violation. In Watson ex rel. Watson v. Beckel,
Following the precedents set forth above, it is clear that procedural due process requirements are less stringent when the student admits the conduct which forms the basis for imposing a sanction on the student. Plaintiffs argue Adam admitted he drew the picture, but did not admit to doing anything wrong. Such an argument is totally frivolous and nothing more than an exercise in semantics. Not only should the subject matter of the drawing put a student such as plaintiff on notice that this was a clear violation of student rules and could cause fear among the faculty and students, but it could also interrupt and impede the school's educational process. However, the drawing was not the only violation found. Adam also had an illegal weapon in his wallet which is also a violation of school rules. The subject matter of the drawing combined with the discovery of a weapon on the person of the student and his admission in the presence of his mother eliminate any need for a more detailed hearing than plaintiff received at the conference which was held in this case. The Court also cannot overlook the fact that it has already held the drawing was not protected by the First Amendment. Considering the jurisprudence and the undisputed facts of this case, including Adam's admission, the discovery of the box cutter and the mother's voluntary waiver of a hearing, plaintiffs were afforded adequate procedural due process. Therefore, summary judgment should be granted on the procedural due process claim.
The Court will also determine whether Adam was denied due process by the Ascension Parish School Board because his mother waived the hearing on Adam's behalf. In Coplin v. Conejo Valley Unified School Dist.,
This Court adopts the persuasive and well reasoned analysis in Coplin to support its conclusion that Adam's mother's decision to waive the hearing on his behalf was "voluntary, knowing, intelligent, and non-coercive."
Further, there is no evidence that Adam's mother was misled by Linda Lamendola when she signed the waiver. Thus, Ms. LeBlanc testified in her deposition as follows:
It is obvious that Ms. LeBlanc was concerned with the serious and adverse consequences of the charge and the possible sanctions when she waived Adam's expulsion hearing. She was also interested in getting Adam into the alternative school to avoid any gaps in his education. It is also clear that the defendants were concerned about Adam's continued education by its decision to place Adam in an alternative school rather than expel him from the school system. Thus, Ms. LeBlanc evaluated the potential repercussions of not placing Adam in the alternative school and made a knowing, rational decision to waive the expulsion hearing to avoid any further delay in Adam's education. This waiver was voluntary, knowing, intelligent, and non-coercive with full awareness of the consequences. Under these facts and the jurisprudence discussed above, there was no procedural due process violation because Ms. LeBlanc waived the hearing on behalf of her son.
C. Qualified Immunity
The defendants assert qualified immunity as a special defense. Although the Court has found no merit to plaintiffs'
1. Whether Conrad Braud is entitled to qualified immunity in his individual capacity
Qualified immunity protects officials from section 1983 liability provided their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights which a reasonable person would have known.
Because this Court has determined that none of Adam's constitutional rights were violated, the Court is not required to reach the qualified immunity question as noted earlier. However, out of an abundance of caution, this Court will address the applicability of the qualified immunity defense. The Court will first determine if Braud violated one of Adam's clearly established constitutional rights. For a right to be clearly established, the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. A right is clearly established only if it would be clear to a reasonable actor that his conduct was unlawful under the particular facts involved. The right allegedly violated
Even if this Court were to find that one or more of the rights asserted by plaintiff was were violated was clearly established, Braud is still entitled to qualified immunity under the second inquiry the Court must make. Under the second inquiry, the Court must determine if the defendant's acts were objectively reasonable in light of the law clearly established at the time the defendant acted. If the law is clearly established, an actor is still entitled to qualified immunity if at the time of the action, the actor believed his actions were objectively legally reasonable.
2. Whether Robert Cloutare and Conrad Braud are subject to section 1983 liability in their official capacities
The distinction between a state official being sued in a personal and official capacity was clarified by the United States Supreme Court in Hafer v. Melo.
Because official-capacity suits are governed by the rules pertaining to municipal and state governmental liability, qualified immunity does not pertain to official-capacity claims for injunctive or declaratory relief as these claims are considered to be official-capacity claims against the relevant government entity.
D. Attorneys Fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988
The Court has reviewed the record and determined that defendants are not entitled to attorneys fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 and the facts of this case. The fact that defendants have successfully defended their suit does not mean that they are entitled to attorney's fees under Section 1988. The issues involved in this case cannot be said to be frivolous even though the Court found plaintiff's claims to be without merit under the law and facts of this case.
III. Conclusion
First Amendment protection cannot be provided to a high school student's graphic drawing of his high school being soaked with gasoline, surrounded by an individual with a torch and a missile, and illustrating administrators being assaulted and its students subjected to racial expletives and slogans. This conclusion is supported under a pure-Tinker analysis, the true-threat inquiry, and the Fifth Circuit's approach in Canady. Thus, plaintiffs' First Amendment claims must be dismissed as a matter of law under the facts of this case.
This Court also finds that where a school administrator discovers a drawing like the one involved in this case, the reasonableness requirement for a search or seizure is satisfied and plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights were not violated under the facts of this case. Therefore, plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment claims are dismissed as a matter of law.
There was no procedural due process violation under the facts of this case. Even though no formal hearing was held, Adam admitted the violation of the rule for which he was removed from EAHS and sent to an alternative school. There is also no procedural violation of the student's right where his mother waives such a hearing after it is offered. Thus, plaintiffs' procedural due process claims are dismissed as a matter of law under the facts of this case.
Even if these constitutional claims were found viable, plaintiffs' Section 1983 claims against Superintendent Robert Cloutare and Principal Conrad Braud, both in their individual and official capacities, are barred by the doctrine of qualified immunity. The claims against Braud individually are barred because plaintiffs have failed to show any clearly established right was violated, and alternatively, Braud's actions were objectively reasonable. The claims against Cloutare and Braud in their official capacities are barred because plaintiffs failed to show that the Ascension Parish School Board or EAHS has a policy or custom of systematically depriving students of their constitutional rights.
Finally, defendants' claims for attorney's fees are denied.
IT IS ORDERED that defendants' motion for summary judgment is granted.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiffs' suit be dismissed with prejudice.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendants' demand for attorneys fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 is denied.
Judgment shall be entered accordingly.


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For three years economic policy throughout the advanced world has been paralyzed, despite high unemployment, by a dismal orthodoxy. Every suggestion of action to create jobs has been shot down with warnings of dire consequences. If we spend more, the Very Serious People say, the bond markets will punish us. If we print more money, inflation will soar. Nothing should be done because nothing can be done, except ever harsher austerity, which will someday, somehow, be rewarded.
But now it seems that one major nation is breaking ranks – and that nation is, of all places, Japan.
This isn't the maverick we were looking for. In Japan governments come and governments go, but nothing ever seems to change – indeed, Shinzo Abe, the new prime minister, has had the job before, and his party's victory was widely seen as the return of the "dinosaurs" who misruled the country for decades. Furthermore, Japan, with its huge government debt and aging population, was supposed to have even less room for maneuver than other advanced countries.
But Mr. Abe returned to office pledging to end Japan's long economic stagnation, and he has already taken steps orthodoxy says we mustn't take. And the early indications are that it's going pretty well.
Some background: Long before the 2008 financial crisis plunged America and Europe into a deep and prolonged economic slump, Japan held a dress rehearsal in the economics of stagnation. When a burst stock and real estate bubble pushed Japan into recession, the policy response was too little, too late and too inconsistent.
To be sure, there was a lot of spending on public works, but the government, worried about debt, always pulled back before a solid recovery could get established, and by the late 1990s persistent deflation was already entrenched. In the early 2000s the Bank of Japan, the counterpart of the Federal Reserve, tried to fight deflation by printing a lot of money. But it, too, pulled back at the first hint of improvement, and the deflation never went away.
That said, Japan never had the kind of employment and human disaster we've experienced since 2008. Indeed, our policy response has been so inadequate that I've suggested that American economists who used to be very harsh in their condemnations of Japanese policy, a group that includes Ben Bernanke and, well, me, visit Tokyo to apologize to the emperor. We have, after all, done even worse.
And there's another lesson in Japan's experience: While getting out of a prolonged slump turns out to be very difficult, that's mainly because it's hard getting policy makers to accept the need for bold action. That is, the problem is mainly political and intellectual, rather than strictly economic. For the risks of action are much smaller than the Very Serious People want you to believe.
Consider, in particular, the alleged dangers of debt and deficits. Here in America, we are constantly warned that we must slash spending now now now or we'll turn into Greece, Greece I tell you. But Greece, a country without a currency, doesn't look much like the United States; surely Japan offers a more relevant model. And while doomsayers keep predicting a fiscal crisis in Japan, hyping each uptick in interest rates as a sign of the imminent apocalypse, it keeps not happening: Japan's government can still borrow long term at a rate of less than 1 percent.
Enter Mr. Abe, who has been pressuring the Bank of Japan into seeking higher inflation – in effect, helping to inflate away part of the government's debt – and has also just announced a large new program of fiscal stimulus. How have the market gods responded?
The answer is, it's all good. Market measures of expected inflation, which were negative not long ago – the market was expecting deflation to continue – have now moved well into positive territory. But government borrowing costs have hardly changed at all; given the prospect of moderate inflation, this means that Japan's fiscal outlook has actually improved sharply. True, the foreign-exchange value of the yen has fallen considerably – but that's actually very good news, and Japanese exporters are cheering.
In short, Mr. Abe has thumbed his nose at orthodoxy, with excellent results.
Now, people who know something about Japanese politics warn me not to think of Mr. Abe as a good guy. His foreign policy, they tell me, is very bad, and his support for stimulus may have more to do with old-fashioned pork-barrel (tofu barrel?) politics than with a sophisticated rejection of conventional wisdom.
But none of that may matter. Whatever his motives, Mr. Abe is breaking with a bad orthodoxy. And if he succeeds, something remarkable may be about to happen: Japan, which pioneered the economics of stagnation, may also end up showing the rest of us the way out.
Paul Krugman is an American economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times . He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 2008.