yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!

for ONCE the RIGHT decision. now if only they would have ruled correctly in the connecticut douchebag case (although that wasn't the supreme court, it was the u.s. district court of appeals i believe). same thing though. a student's rights were grossly violated. different decision though. avery doninger LOST (how that could have happened, i don't know. we could ask sotomayor though. SHE was one of 'em who made that travesty of a judgement


Student Strip Search Illegal
School Violated Teen Girl's Rights, Supreme Court Rules

By Robert Barnes

Washington Post Staff Writer

Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are "categorically distinct" from other efforts to combat illegal drugs.

In a case that had drawn attention from educators, parents and civil libertarians across the country, the court ruled 8 to 1 that such an intrusive search without the threat of a clear danger to other students violated the Constitution's protections against unreasonable search or seizure.

Justice David H. Souter, writing perhaps his final opinion for the court, said that in the search of Savana Redding, now a 19-year-old college student, school officials overreacted to vague accusations that Redding was violating school policy by possessing the ibuprofen, equivalent to two tablets of Advil.........