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March 24, 2009

School strip searches unconstitutional?

The Supreme Court will soon decide that issue.

I personally believe that, in the case in question at least, they’re illegal. A strip search for prescription ibuprofen?

The Ninth Circuit already has indicated it feels the same way:
Writing for the majority, Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw said, “It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights.”

Agreed. The Obama Administration is, for once, doing the right thing on a civil liberties issue with an amicus brief for the student and her family. Read the full story for details.

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