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Vernonia V. Acton, 1995
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Vernonia V. Acton, 1995
By; Cody Moccia
Dissenting Opinion
Sandra Day O'Connor pointed out that this case differed from New Jersey T.L.O because in the New Jersey case administrators had reasonable suspicion of a student who had already violated school rules and Acton's signing up to play sports was not a comparable violation.
What is this case about?
Lower Court Issue
The practical effect of Vernonia was to clear the way for student athlete drug testing in schools nationwide. By the mid 1980's, schools had begun adopting even broader drug testing policy's. In rejecting a challenge to the policy the 7th circuit found that the policy was consistant.
This is about students that were at Vernonia school district athletes were using drugs while playing a sport. Using drugs while playing a sport is a serious risk due to injury and suspension from school and get kicked off the team and could never play any sport again just from doing drugs.
Constitutional Issue
The 4th Amendment of the constitution provides that individuals are protected against unreasonable searches. The Amendment extends this guarantee to search by state officers.
Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that the school districts drug testing policy was constitutional. Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the court.
The Drug Leaders
Backround 3
Student Athletes were the leaders of the drug culture in Vernonia. School officials adopted a student athlete drug testing so that students will not do drugs. The drug testing policy let's random drug testing for students that's in athletic programs.
James Acton
Backround of case
James signed up for football and before he could play he needed to get a random drug test, and he said he doesn't want to, and then his parents didn't like the idea of drug testing so then they went to the supreme court and that' how the name Vernonia school district V. Acton appeared.
Students in thousands of individual schools are affected and that's why the Supreme Court made the drug testing for student athletes, also drug testing has proved conroversial both in work and schools. The U.S Supreme Court upheld suspicion less student drug testing in 1995.
Backround 2
In the 1980's, school administrators in Vernonia observed a big increase in drug use among student athletes. The purpose of the drug the policy was to prevent athletes from using drugs.
In 2001, the New York Times estimated the hundreds out of the Nations, 60,000 school districts require some form of testing to prevent drug usage of student athletes.