Transcript Board of Education v. Earls, No. 01

By: Drew Jackson
Ms. Earls thought that it
was wrong for the
Tecumseh School System
to drug test any school
students that were
taking their time to
participate in the
schools’ extracurricular
activities. This is where
the Supreme Court Case
began to form.
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The determination to prove her point
led Ms. Earls to take this case to the
United States Court of Appeals for the
10th Circuit, in Denver.
Ms. Earls still stuck with her general
argument in this case, but also
brought up the Forth Amendment.
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Ms. earls’ argued that the Fourth
Amendment was being violated because
she saw this drug testing as An
unreasonable search and seizure.
Ms. Earl was successful in presenting
her case.
This is what led to her success and
eventually winning this case, in the
United States Court of Appeals for the
10th Circuit.
This case was still far from
over the school system was not
ready to give into this decision
by the Court of Appeals.
BOARD OF EDUCATION
EARLS
The Board of
Education formed
their argument that
they wanted to
randomly drug test
students to help
protect them and keep
them safe on the
travels of the
school’s teaMs.
Ms. Earls still held
with her argument
that she had formed
earlier in the case
that she presented in
the Court of appeals.
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The Judges in the majority were:
Rehnquis, Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer, and
Thomas.
Judge Thomas wrote the majority
decision.
There was not to be any hand selecting
for these drug tests and they were to
all Be random as well as private.
They saw that this was very much like
the schools having random drug
searches, and this was lawful.
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The four Judges in the dissention were:
stevens, o’connor, souter, and ginsburg.
Ginsburg also wrote the dissenting
opinion.
The dissention was based on the fact the
drug testing was random, and that a
random drug test would not be affecting
every student. This was not seen as fair
because they would not treat all the
students the same. They said they were
drug testing too many students and too
few at the same time.
MAJORITY V. DISSENTION
The trial ended with a vote of
five to four in favor of randomly
drug testing the student
competitors.
In the end of this case the Board of
Education won in 2002. This led to the
Tecumseh School System being able to
randomly drug test all of their student
competitors.
The conclusion of this case allowed the
random drug testing of student
competitors, but now that it has gone
through the Supreme Court, schools
around the nation can also take these
precautions to help protect their student
body.
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