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Safford strip search argument April 21st

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In what the commentators (and list serv traffic) already see as a major test of school search law, the Supreme Court hears argument April 21st in Safford United School District #1 v. Redding, and news articles are appearing in advance. There is today's Washington Post: Strip-Search Case Could Redefine Student Privacy. The NYTimes had an article March 23d already mentioned here. The cert grant is posted here, Ninth Circuit's en banc decision posted here. See also commentary posted on SCOTUSWiki and the American Constitution Society Blog (scroll down to "The Fourth Amendment and Strip Searches in the Public Schools" posted April 7th). In their post: In short, the Ninth Circuit was correct to hold the search unconstitutional. However, the Ninth Circuit, like the Second and Seventh Circuits, wrongly interprets T...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 11, 2009 (boomark / email).