State Court
Rules Random Drug Testing of Student Athletes
Unconstitutional
[Posted 03/17/2008]
A Washington state Supreme Court ruled unanimously
in favor of two families who sued the Wahkiakum
School District because of its policy of conducting
random urine tests of middle school and high school
student athletes. The high court wrote,
“We
can conceive of no way to draw a principled line
permitting drug testing only student athletes.”
However, some of the justices did feel that random
tests could be justified under different
circumstances.
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