<p>Want to add, that the fact that a school decision impacts the student’s future is not what determines whether the case is going to win in court and/or negotiations. It’s if the school can legally get away with that decision. It’s also whether it is worth suing and going through the trouble of fighting the school. Most of the time, school records of transgression are not going to come nto play and are not part of accessible public records. When you take it to court, it does become part of that, and availabe for anyone who can find it to review it and rad the whole sordid situation replete with details. That’s why most of the time, it is wiser in the long run to let the school penalites lie. There is a lot a school can do internally within their rights. Usually school issues stay in house. In fact.many schools have "arrangements’ with local polce that transgressions by students are handled by the college instead of by the city. My son’s school operates that way, and in fact, the university police are actual police officers that are assigned to the university. How that coordinates specifically, I don’t know, and hope I don’t find out.
Now with computer and internet, it has become a whole other issue about on campus penalities not making their way into public. But stilll, most employers and other agencies will not take a college disciplinary record and weigh it they would a public record like that from the courts and police. You can explain away a college disciplinary action a lot more successfully than a public sanction.</p>