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2009-06-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-
SCOTUS: Student Strip Search Illegal
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Posted by gorb 2009-06-26 04:37|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top

#1 'Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. "Judges are not qualified to second-guess the best manner for maintaining quiet and order in the school environment," he wrote.'

As per usual, the leftist crowd is skewering Thomas for his dissent. It will be interesting to see their reaction when this decision is used as a precedent to challenge school policies that they wish to enforce in their districts. One can assume many a lawyer will exploit this decision to confront issues beyond unreasonable search or seizure. Can you say “Zero Tolerance”?
Posted by DepotGuy 2009-06-26 09:25||   2009-06-26 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Ibuprofen is an illegal drug?
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-26 10:58||   2009-06-26 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 It's generally against school rules for students to have anything more interesting than a chocolate bar, Crazy Fool. School nurses will only pass out pills with a doctor's prescription, so they don't even have baby aspirin on hand.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2009-06-26 12:11||   2009-06-26 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes railing, you sure must know a lot about baby aspirin.

Why don't you tell all the respected Rantburg readers about your dad's occupation (unemployed Chemist) and about his chemistry certificate from Hudson Valley Community College?

Ha! ha!
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Posted by TRUTH yeah! 2009-06-26 12:39||   2009-06-26 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Have you always been stoopid or did you take a course?
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Posted by Fred 2009-06-26 12:44||   2009-06-26 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Your right TW - but being against school rules does not make it exactly 'Illegal' (picky - but then I'm an engineer type). Just against the rules.

Somehow I don't think it rises to the level of requiring a freaking strip search - particulary on a 'tip' from a fellow student. Its Motrin for gosh sake.
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-26 12:57||   2009-06-26 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 [TRUTH yeah! has been pooplisted.]
Posted by TRUTH yeah! 2009-06-26 12:59||   2009-06-26 12:59|| Front Page Top

#8 CF I agree a strip search was over the top. But this had happened aerlier in this school.

In 2003, Redding was an eighth-grader in the small town of Safford, Ariz., near the border with New Mexico. That fall, one boy had gotten violently ill from taking pills at school. When another girl was found with several white pills in a folder, she told Vice Principal Kerry Wilson she got them from Savana. The pills were prescription-strength ibuprofen, equivalent to two Advil tablets.

Posted by Beavis 2009-06-26 13:05||   2009-06-26 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 A lot of teenage girls this age have their period and cramps and believe it or not require Motrin, Aleve, or other pain reliever. The school officials seem to lower the standard for idiocy.

So, do these school officials have to register as sex offenders and stay away from the school?

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endown them with small talents and great ambition.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-06-26 16:55||   2009-06-26 16:55|| Front Page Top

#10 God created the idiot for practice - then he created the school board.
--- Mark Twain
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-06-26 17:47||   2009-06-26 17:47|| Front Page Top

#11 ibuprofen isn't much of a controlled substance.

If that really was the purpose of the strip search, the school officials need to be charged with child molestation.

Abuse of authority isn't tolerable.
Posted by flash91 2009-06-26 18:05||   2009-06-26 18:05|| Front Page Top

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