The Case of the Strip Searched Student at Supreme Court

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case of Savana Redding, a 13-year old middle school student in Arizona who was suspected of carrying prescription drugs to school for non-medical use.  Acting on a tip from another student, she was strip searched, but no pills were found.  Her mother sued and the District Court found in favor of the school.  The Ninth Circuit upheld the ruling, but the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc reversed saying the school needed greater justification for a strip search than for other types of searches allowed since the 1985 decision in New Jersey v. T.L.O. 

The Case:  Safford United School District No. 1, et al., v. Redding

Oral Argument Calendar
SCOTUSblog analysis:  http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Safford_United_School_District