This paper is a detailed example of the 4th amendment.

Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Affirming the right to confidential medical care for every last(predicate) Americans, the United States Supreme Court struck down a drug testing scheme targeting pregnant women developed by local police and prosecutors in collaboration with doctors in a South Carolina hospital.

In its 6-3 decision in Ferguson v. City of Charleston, the Court erect that the Medical University of South Carolina drug testing scheme was in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment, which provides all Americans with protection from un average searches.

1. United States v. Arvizu, 534 U.S. 266 (Jan. 16, 2002) (9-0) (Border Patrol stop was based on sane suspicion); United States v. Knights, 534 U.S. 112 (Dec. 10, 2001) (9-0) ( rationalizeless search of probationers home was permissible on reasonable suspicion); United States v. Drayton, 536 U.S. 194 (June 17, 2002) (6-3) (passenger questioned on bus was not seized); and Board of raising of Indep. School Dist. No. 92 of Pottawatomie County, Okla. v. Earls, 536 U.S. 822 (June 27, 2002) (5-4) (drug testing of students participating in extra-curricular activities was permissible).

2. Three cases found Fourth Amendment violations, see Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001) (thermal imaging is a search); City of Indianapolis v. Edmond, 531 U.S. 32 (2000) (drug interdiction checkpoint was impermissible); Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S.



67 (2001) (hospitals warrantless drug tests of pregnant women were impermissible), speckle two others did not, see Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318 (2001) (arrest for fine-only traffic offense is permissible); Illinois v. McArthur, 531 U.S. 326 (2001) (preventing resident from entering home during execution of a search warrant is permissible).

The most portentous case is Maryland v. Pringle (02-809), which poses an important question about the meaning of the Fourth Amendments probable cause requirement. A Baltimore County police...

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