Student Can’t Revive Expulsion Challenge Over Shooting Threat

A Michigan high school student and his mother failed to convince a federal appeals court to let them continue fighting his expulsion, which was based on an alleged threat of violence the student expressed eight days after a different student in a nearby town opened fire in a high school in 2021.

A district court properly dismissed the case with prejudice after the plaintiffs failed to file timely responses to motions from the Huron School District and the Huron Township Police Department, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a Friday opinion.