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This is why your brain, after being on drugs, cannot go to college

By Douglas A. Berman

This post at How Appealing lead me to this post at the School Law Blog providing this report on a new Eighth Circuit ruling:A federal appeals court has rejected a constitutional challenge to a federal law that restricts, and in some cases bars, students with drug convictions from participation in federal college aid programs. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, in St. Louis, ruled in Students for Sensible Drug Policy Foundation v. Spellings that the controversial sanctions do not violate the double-jeopardy clause of the 5th Amendment. The student group argued that the primary purpose of the law is deterrence of criminal action, so the secondary sanction on those convicted of drug crimes is form of double jeopardy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 29, 2008 (boomark / email).