Legal Opinion
Washington v. Unified Government of Wyandotte County
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2017No. 15-3181PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
Roberick Washington was employed as a lieutenant at the Wyandotte County Juvenile Detention Center in Kansas City, Kansas. After a random drug test, he was fired for testing positive for cocaine. Washington filed a civil rights action against the County and several of his co-workers, alleging that the drug test was an illegal search that violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, as well as breached his employment contract. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on all claims.
We affirm because the County’s random drug test did not…
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