Lovvorn v. City of Chattanooga

RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge,

dissenting.1

If I were persuaded to join those courts which have concluded that mandatory drug testing of public employees offends the fourth amendment, I would gladly join in Judge Martin’s well written opinion. Indeed, it would be the easy way out to concur since the courts have produced a plethora of conflicting opinions on this issue and the Supreme Court has now taken the matter for resolution.2 However, I remain convinced that all of the approaches to this problem have not been fully explored and that the issue has not been defined once and for all.

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