Court says strip search of Ariz. teenager illegal


	Court says strip search of Ariz. teenager illegal

Satchamo

6-25-2009 3:16 PM

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supreme court, ruling, school, teenager, search

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This is a followup to the clip last summer that the Supreme Court would look at the case. In a 1985 ruling they said the schools must have reasonable suspicion, but the search cannot be "excessively intrusive."

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