High School Strip Search Case goes to Supreme Court

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From the article:

In the case before the court, a vice principal at an Arizona middle school in 2003 told a nurse and an aide to take student Savana Redding to an office and to search her and her underwear to see if she was hiding the pills.

She had nothing to hide, and she and her mother sued Safford school officials on grounds that they had subjected her to an "unreasonable search."

It looks as though it wasn't a case of "turn the pills over" but hearsay that she had some hidden in her underwear.

Also:

The vice principal in this case had been told that some students had pills, and that they were to be passed around at lunchtime. Based on that report, "he was entitled to search anyplace where contraband might reasonably be found," said Matthew Wright, the district's lawyer.

Justice Antonin Scalia asked if that applied to a "body-cavity search."

Wright replied that no school official would undertake such a search, but he insisted that it would be legal.

That makes me uneasy.