United States v. Ruiz

In Committee for G I Rights v Callaway, 370 F Supp 934 (DDC 1974), Judge Gesell concluded that a drug abuse prevention plan (USAREUR Circular 600-85) for the U S Army’s European Command similar to that before us had such "serious constitutional infirmities” as to require that it be cancelled. Principally, Judge Gesell condemned the program on the ground that it was inordinately intrusive and constituted a mass search "solely to ferret out drugs”; he also determined to be improper the "use for disciplinary purposes of facts developed . . . during participation in a rehabilitative program…