Friday, June 26, 2009

FEED: Chalk one up to individual rights, in the schools

We've had resolutions about the rights of students in schools, an area in which the courts have mostly deferred to the administrations, favoring safety over liberty. This seems to be the correct result from SCOTUS, although note that, in his dissent, CT noted that now all students will know that their drugs are safe in their underwear.

Today, in an 8-to-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that Arizona public school officials violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a 13-year-old eighth-grader when they subjected her to a strip search because they thought she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear. More...

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