Officials in the Gainesville and Hall County school systems said a Supreme Court of Georgia ruling last week on a Henry County case involving zero tolerance policies on school fights is not likely to have any significant impact on their schools. The court unanimously decided “that schools with zero tolerance policies against school fights must nevertheless apply the Georgia statute that gives students the right to argue self-defense as justification for the fight,” according to the court’s summary of the decision. The court also ruled in such cases the student has the burden to prove self-defense.