Legal Opinion
Redding v. Safford Unified School Dist. No. 1
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 11, 2008No. 05-15759PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge Wardlaw: Dissents by Judges Gould and Hawkins
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge,
with whom Judges PREGERSON, FISHER, PAEZ, MILAN D. SMITH, JR., and N.R. SMITH join:
On the basis of an uncorroborated tip from the culpable eighth grader, public middle school officials searched futilely for prescription-strength ibuprofen by strip-searching thirteen-year-old honor student Savana Redding. We conclude that the school officials violated Savana’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. The strip search of Savana was neither “justified at its inception,” New Jersey…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. BarnetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Safford Unified School District 1 v. ReddingSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Humphries v. County of Los AngelesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2009
- Herrera v. Santa Fe Public SchoolsDistrict Court, D. New Mexico · 2013
- Herrera ex rel. Herrera v. SchoolsDistrict Court, D. New Mexico · 2014
- Foster v. RaspberryDistrict Court, M.D. Georgia · 2009
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