Legal Opinion
American Postal Workers Union v. Anthony M. Frank
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 6, 1992No. 91-1633PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK M. COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
The American Postal Workers Union seeks declaratory and injunctive relief requiring the United States Postal Service to stop mandatory drug testing of applicants for employment. 1 Because we find that the Union lacks standing, we are constrained to dismiss this case without reaching the sensitive constitutional issue at the heart of the litigation.
I. Background
This lawsuit challenges, as violative of Fourth Amendment privacy rights, the Postal Service’s policy of requiring job applicants to submit to urinalysis drug testing. The Union represents…
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