Legal Opinion
Joan E. Friedenberg v. School Board of Palm Beach County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2018No. 17-12935PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
A suspicionless search by the government is presumptively unconstitutional. So goes the basic hornbook law of the Fourth Amendment. The details are a bit more complex. Suspicionless searches are permissible in a narrow band of cases where they serve sufficiently powerful and unique public needs. The force of these needs depends heavily on the context in which the search takes place.
At issue today is a matter of first impression-whether a county school board may require all applicants for substitute teacher positions to submit to and pass a drug test as a condition of…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Ingraham v. WrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
- New Jersey v. T. L. O.Supreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Griffin v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Vernonia School District 47J v. ActonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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