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Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional
yuna49 writes "The US Supreme Court today ruled 8-1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old girl by officials in an Arizona middle school was unconstitutional. However, by a vote of 7-2, the Court also ruled that the individual school officials could not be held personally liable. A suit for damages against the school district itself is still going forward. We discussed this case at length back in March when the Court decided to hear the case on appeal."
Good point, it's interstate commerce!
93rd rule of Slashdot: No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my comment will be taken seriously by someone.
You'll get used to it by the time you hit 20 :)
Should we be building more private prisons to hold them cheaply, or should we be cherishing them and making sure they don't see Janet Jackson's nipple?
The kids can ram it. Join me and my fellow Middle School Deans from across this land as we tell these ungrateful bastards to fuck off. We are applying en masse to the peace corp so we can assist more grateful African children.
Besides, has anyone ever considered that with a little government money to train my brothers and I in basic medical screening techniques we could be years more advanced in the level of health care delivered to our young people. Decades of pre-teen co-ed athletes have marched through the shower room of my Middle School - that is *DECADES* of young women I could have helped with *MY OWN HANDS* !!
Think of the children my ass.
Yes, I guess it will be easier to get a look at girls' chests in countries with flimsy constitutional protections.
Yeah, I want you around my kids.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
There, fixed that for ya.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Because now we know that we can store torrents and pirated files in children's underpants (aka UnderWarez) that cannot, constitutionally, be searched by their school administrations.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
Well, unlike your argument/hypothetical situation, a 13 year old can hold (their) water.
No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
KIng James Vible?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I totally agree. Given the transparency and openness of the Soviet system, it's 20 gaziliion trillion percent sure that if it had happened, we'd all know about it.
And Russia still pwnz everyone at libert[eh|ai|é] and all that shite. I mean, nosy journalists would never be assassinated by agents of the state. And even if they did, there'd never be a rigged trial to let the culprits walk away Scot-free.
Now some might say that you communidiots are as bad as the libertards, and that it would be a most excellent idea to drop you all in some irrelevant and expendable place like Somalia, Belgium or Detroit and let you slug it out, all on prime time TV. Ignore them; they're capitalist running pig-dogs, all of them, and they'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
"School-issue speculums" just doesn't have a comforting ring about it.
But does sound AWESOME for the name of a punk rock band.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Dude we live in the cocaine capital of Europe where the government can't make up his mind if possession of a small amount of cannabis should get you an official telling off or just condescending lecture from a uniformed plod. Of course we can't understand why a bunch mad Yanks would think strip searching a 13 year old girl over some Ibuprofen is a good idea. Probably has something to do with socialism or something.
As Justice Stevens said, "it does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights of some magnitude." But it took Justice Thomas to get to the heart of it, when he said, "Whadda ya mean, no one took pictures?"
Rule #1 of parenting is never leave your kids alone with someone until after they agree to tell you their name.
The police department has the same rule about giving recruits guns.
Fucking fascists.
The enemies of Democracy are
We should ban gum. You never know what stuff they're mixing in before they bring it on campus! ~
as it is now as a parent I would press sex offense charges in both cases, sue the pants off the school district...
Then you're no better than they are! Two wrongs don't make a right; just because they saw your daughter's unmentionables doesn't mean you get to see theirs...
you're not getting into my kids underpants unless you're an officer of the law with a warrant in hand
No interest in being a grandparent whatsoever? Or just want your kids to have interesting fetishes?
No, his copy has the Bill of Obligations and Bill of Responsibilities, and he's tired of everyone focusing on civil liberties!
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.