Tecumseh+v.+Earls

=TECUMSEH V. EARLS =

===The court case was brought about because the school district implemented a policy that requires students involved inextra curricular activities to submit to random drug testing.  The students were arguing that their Fourth Amendment rights were taken away. It also invaded privacy. The school, on the other hand, said that the policy would protect the health and safety of the students in their school. The Fourth Amendment says that people do not have to submit to unreasonable search and seizure so many students felt as if that was violated. The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court was in favor of the school district. The case was originally brought to the District Court where no violation was found against the Fourth Amendment. The === === case was then brought to the Appeals Court where a violation was found, in favor of the students. Then the U.S. Supreme Court found that there was, in fact, no violation against the Fourth Amendment.  The majority view was that students involved in extracurricular activities had "a diminished expectation of privacy" and the policy would help to prevent drug use among students. === ===(Board of Education v. Earls, Wikipedia) The dissenting view was that the policy violated the Fourth Amendment and the school district didn't identify a special need for testing students who participate in extracurricular activities.  The policy was adopted in the fall of 1998 and the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was made June 27, 2002. ===