Random drug testing, policy and procedure, privacy.

Mark Barton files suit against his employer after he is demoted for failing a random drug test. Barton contends the company failed to provide advance notice of the test and willfully damaged the employer-employee relationship by implementing a plan that amounted to an invasion of privacy. The company filed a motion to strike Barton's complaint.

This is the first judicial review of this case.

Barton loses. The Superior Court of Connecticut at Hartford approved the defendant's motion to dismiss. The court ruled that the company did not intend to damage the employer-employee relationship by introducing a drug testing program. Therefore, no violation occurred.