{"id":2554,"date":"2008-10-16T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T06:26:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T06:26:32","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"<em>Skinner<\/em> does not apply to governmental actors; suit against DUI test of engineer without probable cause can proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Railroad employees&#8217; union stated a claim for relief for a DUI test of locomotive engineers without probable cause to believe they are under the influence.  <em>Skinner<\/em> does not apply to governmental actors. United Transp. Union v. Perdue, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80991 (S.D. W.Va. September 30, 2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Furthermore, the facts presented in the instant complaint describe a situation that falls outside the purview of <em>Skinner<\/em>. In <em>Skinner<\/em>, the railroad was searching its own employee to determine the cause of an accident; here, local law enforcement performed the search. While <em>Skinner<\/em> stands for the proposition that administrative searches in the wake of railroad accidents may be performed without probable cause, there is little to suggest that <em>Skinner<\/em> extended to local law enforcement. The Court in <em>Skinner<\/em> stated, &#8220;The FRA has prescribed toxicological tests, not to assist in the prosecution of employees, but rather to prevent accidents.&#8221; <em>Skinner<\/em>, 489 U.S. at 615. Therefore, this Court finds that <em>Skinner<\/em> does not apply to local law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing in the instant complaint suggests that the police had anything approaching probable cause. In the absence of probable cause, and assuming that the facts alleged in the complaint are true, the application of the breathalyzer to Chapman is a sufficient factual allegation to support a \u00a7 1983 claim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}