United States Sixth Circuit

The district court's holding that a random drug testing program implemented for select Michigan civil service employees does not violate the Fourth Amendment is affirmed where sufficient special needs, based on public concerns, were present and overrode the intrusion of plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/30/2004
• Published 09/30/2004

Judges

• Before: KENNEDY, SUTTON, and COOK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Georgi-Ann Bargamian, Associate General Counsel International Union, UAW, George B. Washington (argued and briefed), Scheff & Washington, Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Denise C. Barton (briefed), Asst. Attorney General, Mike Cox, Attorney General, Public Employment & Elections Division, Susan Przekop Shaw (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General Labor Division, Lansing, MI, for Defendants-Appellees.