{"id":2870,"date":"2009-01-17T00:39:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:24:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Cert. granted in a school strip search case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has granted certiorari on Friday in the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=ca9_en_banc_school_strip_search_for_ibup&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Redding v. Safford Unified School District<\/a> case to decide the legality of an anonymous tip from a student used to strip search a student for ibuprofen. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/court-to-rule-on-state-power-over-bank-bias-5-other-cases\/#more-8543\">SCOTUSBlog summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In reopening the issue of public school students\u2019 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.  The case is Safford Unified School District v. Redding (<a href=\"http:\/\/origin.www.supremecourtus.gov\/docket\/08-479.htm\">08-479<\/a>).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The opinion below: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2008\/07\/11\/0515759.pdf\">Redding v. Safford Unified School District<\/a>, 531 F.3d 1071 (9th Cir. 2008) (en banc, 6-5), posted <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=ca9_en_banc_school_strip_search_for_ibup&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LATimes article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-scotus-strip-search17-2009jan17,0,1536129.story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SCOTUSBlog and SCOTUSWiki have not posted serious discussions of this case yet, but they will shortly. When they do, their postings will be posted on the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2870\">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-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}