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School's student search practice unconstitutional

Just in time for the upcoming school year, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Wednesday that full-scale, "suspicionless" searches of property belonging to public school students are unconstitutional. The decision, arriving four years after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas authorized class-action status, grants Fourth Amendment protections to the ...

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