{"id":3075,"date":"2009-04-21T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:06:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T06:06:41","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3075","title":{"rendered":"Argument today in the school strip search case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has oral argument today in Safford United School District #1 v. Redding, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotuswiki.com\/index.php?title=Safford_United_School_District#1_v._Redding\">SCOTUSWiki here<\/a>, in what must be the most reported case of the year. Search &#8220;Redding&#8221; on any major paper&#8217;s website. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/21\/AR2009042100196.html\">today&#8217;s Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/20\/opinion\/20mon1.html?_r=1&amp;scp=4&amp;sq=redding&amp;st=cse\">Sunday&#8217;s NY Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/04\/19\/scotus.strip.search\/index.html?iref=newssearch\">CNN.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,517104,00.html\">FoxNews.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/SCOTUS\/story?id=7380771&amp;page=1\">ABC News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/04\/20\/earlyshow\/main4956242.shtml?source=mostpop_story&amp;tag=main_home_right_rail;mostPopular\">CBS News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/30321748#30321748\">MSNBC<\/a>. On ABC today at 7:10 am ET, there already was a considerable line to get in for the argument.<\/p>\n<p>Questions presented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits public school officials from conducting a search of a student suspected of possessing and distributing a prescription drug on campus in violation of school policy. <\/p>\n<p>2. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from established principles of qualified immunity in holding that a public school administrator may be liable in a damages lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983 for conducting a search of a student suspected of possessing and distributing a prescription drug on campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotuswiki.com\/index.php?title=Safford_United_School_District#1_v._Redding\">SCOTUSWiki<\/a> for all you need to know about the case; more than I could possibly provide because I don&#8217;t have 30 people maintaining a website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3075\">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-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","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=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}