Legal Opinion
Ferguson v. City of Charleston
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 21, 2001No. 99-936PublishedCited by 486 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
In this case, we must decide whether a state hospital’s performance of a diagnostic test to obtain evidence of a patient’s criminal conduct for law enforcement purposes is an *70unreasonable search if the patient has not consented to the procedure. More narrowly, the question is whether the interest in using the threat of criminal sanctions to deter pregnant women from using cocaine can justify a departure from the general rule that an official nonconsensual search is unconstitutional if not authorized by a valid warrant.
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In the fall of 1988, staff members at the public hospital operated in the…
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