Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California
My wife is a teacher.
She has a policy that in her classroom if any student disrupts the classroom by using a cell phone to make calls or text or any other reason during lessons then she will confiscate the device for the day.
After several warnings to a disruptive student she carried out her policy and removed a device from the individual.
Later that day, with an unruly class, the device was stolen from her desk.
The parents want her to pay for the device and say they'll sue. iPhone, $400.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Tell them to bring it on. Judges are just as tired of unruly youths as are teachers.
Tell them to go pound sand, and to discipline their 'child'. Stolen phones are of almost no value to anyone else, so I suspect the thief was the child getting it back. BTW: most judges will confiscate a phone that rings in their courtroom. You can guess how they will respond to the parents.
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