Issues:
Public employee, policy and procedure, random testing, safety, reasonable suspicion, post-accident testing, Fourth Amendment.
Case Summary:
Employees of the federal customs service challenge the constitutionality of an agency plan to randomly drug test employees. The employees argue that the plan violates Fourth Amendment protections. The agency files a motion to dismiss the case.
Decision of lower jurisdiction:
This the first judicial review of this case.
Outcome:
The employees lose. The U.S. District for the Eastern District of New York grants the agency's motion to dismiss. The court ruled that public safety outweighed the employees' privacy rights.