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Article: Random, suspicionless drug testing of high school athletes.(Supreme Court Review)(Case Note)
- Article from:
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
- Author:
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I. INTRODUCTION
In Vernonia Sch. Dist. 47J v. Acton,(1) the United States Supreme Court addressed whether a school district could impose random and suspicionless urinalysis drug testing on high school student athletes. The Court held that such testing did not violate students' Fourth Amendment rights and was therefore constitutional.(2) In so deciding, the Court vastly expanded the permissible realm of drug testing contexts beyond the limits defined in two earlier decisions, Skinner v. National Railway Labor Executives Ass'n(3) and National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab.(4) In those cases, the Court previously stated that the government could only ...