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Cert. granted in a school strip search case

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The Supreme Court has granted certiorari on Friday in the Ninth Circuit's Redding v. Safford Unified School District case to decide the legality of an anonymous tip from a student used to strip search a student for ibuprofen. The SCOTUSBlog summary: In reopening the issue of public school students’ rights of privacy, the Court agreed to hear an appeal by an Arizona school district arguing that the Ninth Circuit Court has created a new rule requiring public school officials to have more evidence of illegal possession of drugs or weapons at school than an unproved tip from a student. The case grows out of the strip-search of a 13-year-old girl at school after one of her classmates said that prescription drugs found on that other student belonged to the girl who was searched...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).