Legal Opinion
Peranzo v. Coughlin
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 14, 1985No. 84 CIV 8787 (LBS)PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAND, District Judge.
I
As part of a continuing effort to deal with the troublesome problem of narcotics use within penal institutions, 1 New York, as well as a number of other states, has adopted a program of randomly subjecting inmates’ urine to the Syva EMIT 2 -st drug detection test.
The New York State Department of Correctional' Services has promulgated Departmental Directive #4937, 3 which sets forth the rules governing the state’s operation of its urine testing program. According to the Directive, an inmate may be required to provide a urine sample to prison authorities for…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- California v. TrombettaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Block v. RutherfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Lahey v. KellyNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
- Richard W. Spence v. Hal FarrierCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1986
- Wykoff v. ResigDistrict Court, N.D. Indiana · 1985
- Jones v. McKenzieDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1986
- Rivera v. WohlrabDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2002
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