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...concerns as justification. After a Bush-appointed judge initially rebuffed the protestors appeal for a legal injunction, the Court rightfully found that the city violated the protestors’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search-and-seizure by forcing them to submit to a “mass, warrantless, suspicionless search policy...
...most fundamental features of the American legal system is the presumption of innocence until proof of guilt. Suspicionless searches or drug testing of students are in no way compatible with that principle. Moreover, government officials—including public school principals—may not search citizens without reasonable justification, and membership in such groups as the math team or the marching band does not in itself justify an intrusive search...
...most fundamental features of the American legal system is the presumption of innocence until proof of guilt. Suspicionless searches or drug testing of students are in no way compatible with that principle. Moreover, government officials—including public school principals—may not search citizens without reasonable justification, and membership in such groups as the math team or the marching band does not in itself justify an intrusive search...
...that was merely the finale of a term in which the court's conservatives tightened the screws on affirmative action, said "enough" to a famous effort to achieve school desegregation, approved suspicionless drug testing for high school athletes and forbade Congress to extend power over the states. What made all the difference is that Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, two perennial swing votes, swung regularly to the right. There they met up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the slash-and-burn conservatives. That the term also saw the further consolidation of a fairly...
...suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that testing them does not constitute an unreasonable search. Justice Antonin Scalia cautioned that the new ruling applied only to athletes, and should not be interpreted as condoning suspicionless searches regarding other students.TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohennotes that the justices did not divide along traditional lines in this ruling. "Justice O'Connor and Justice Souter, who are generally viewed as conservatives, strongly dissented from this decision." At the same time, "Justices Breyer and Ginsberg, two Clinton appointees who might...
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