The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ought to just rename itself the Right-Wing 9th. The 9th Circus is the robed dictatorship that: 1) struck down civil rights laws, claiming they violated the First Amendment; 2) cut civil damages against Exxon over the Valdez spill in half, because they think corporations have "rights"; 3) ruled in favor of drug companies' predatory advertising and made the plaintiffs pay the companies' legal bills; 4) ruled that authorities don't need a search warrant to detect indoor marijuana growing operations using a thermal imaging device (even though the Fourth Amendment is very clear); 5) ruled in favor of Bush on warrantless wiretaps.
Wacky all.
This past September, the 9th Circus flatulated forth yet another thoroughly bizarre ruling.
In Safford, Arizona, back in 2003, a 13-year-old girl who attended Safford Middle School was illegally strip-searched by 3 school faculty members who accused her of possessing over-the-counter Ibuprofen. Because the United States no longer has free speech, I'm not allowed to mention what should befall the scuzzy school personnel for this violation. In any event, the school was promptly sued over the strip search.
Four years later, however, the 9th Circus ruled that the school did not violate the student's rights. Um, yes it did, dum-dums. The court's excuse was that school officials had reasonable grounds for believing she had an over-the-counter drug (horrors!) in her possession. Like that justifies a strip search??? The school's belief was based on hearsay anyway: They got this belief just from conversations with 2 other pupils who accused the victim of the strip search of distributing the drug. There was no real evidence.
In other words, someone can make up a story about a classmate having drugs, and the school has a limitless "right" to strip-search the accused student. That's life under the Bizarro World known as the 9th Circus.
(Source: http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2007/09/27/local_news/news02.txt)
Friday, January 4, 2008
Right-wing court approves school strip search (a blast from the past)
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Dream Warrior is right, this is not a liberal court.
ReplyDeleteI want to see some evidence from conservatives that the 9th is a liberal court. The evidence has to be more than just something that any other court in this country would have agreed with.