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033268P.pdf 08/18/2004 Jane Doe v. Little Rock School
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 03-3268
Eastern District of Arkansas
Civil case - civil rights. School district's practice of subjecting
secondary school students to random, suspicionless searches of their
persons and belonging is an unconstitutional violation of the students'
Fourth Amendment rights because the searches unreasonably invade the
students' legitimate expectations of privacy; district failed to demonstrate
the existence of a need sufficient to justify the substantial intrusions upon
the students' privacy that the search practice entails. Judge Beam,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
[PUBLISHED] [M. Arnold, Author, with Beam and Melloy, Circuit
Judges]