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Safford Unified School District v. Redding, No. 08-479 (U.S. Supreme Court) (557 U.S. 364; 129 S.Ct. 2633) (June 25, 2009) (Justice Souter)

Loaded on May 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists June 01, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, School Searches.

Writing for an 8-1 majority in the final decision of his Supreme Court career, Justice Souter held that the strip search of a 13-year old schoolgirl by school officials looking for forbidden prescription drugs violated her Fourth Amendment rights. Calling the events “embarrassing, frightening and humiliating,” Justice Souter wrote that ...

 

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