United States Ninth Circuit

In a minor's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging defendants violated her Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless search of her person during school hours and on school premises, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed as defendants did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/26/2008
• Decided 09/21/2007
• Published 09/21/2007

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RAYMOND C. FISHER, RONALD M. GOULD, RICHARD A. PAEZ, CARLOS T. BEA, MILAN D. SMITH, JR., N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Graham A. Boyd, M. Allen Hopper, Adam B. Wolf, ACLU Foundation, Santa Cruz, CA;  Andrew J. Petersen (argued), Humphrey & Peterson, P.C., Tucson, AZ;  Bruce G. MacDonald, McNamara, Goldsmith, Jackson & MacDonald, Tucson, AZ;  Daniel Joseph Pochoda, ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellant., Carolyn I. Polowy, Sherri Morgan, National Association of Social Workers, Washington, D.C.;  David A. Honzo, Julie M. Carpenter, Michael A. Hoffman, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae The National Association of Social Workers and the National Association of Social Workers, Arizona Chapter., Clint Bolick, The Rose Law Group, Scottsdale, AZ;  John W. Whitehead, Douglas R. McKusick, The Rutherford Institute, Charlottesville, VA, for amicus curiae The Rutherford Institute.


• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew W. Wright (argued), David K. Pauole, Holm Wright Hyde & Hays PLC, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendants-appellees.