After three police officers burst into the home of Dolly Mapp, Mapp asked to see a search warrant, and was shown a piece of paper, but was given no details about the investigation. Mapp's case would affect every police search and seizure in the United States for years to come as it strengthened the rights of citizens against illegal and arbitrary searches.
The Vernonia School District in Vernonia, Oregon, had a policy that allowed students to participate in school sports only if a consent form allowing drug testing was signed by the student and the student's parents or guardians. James Acton and his parents refused to sign that form, claiming that James's constitutional rights were being violated, and James was not allowed to play football. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Vernonia School District and its drug testing program.
Author Deborah A. Persico looks at New Jersey v. T.L.O., the landmark Supreme Court case dealing with the rights of students against unreasonable drug searches in schools. T.L.O., whose initials were used throughout the case to protect her identity as a minor, was found smoking cigarettes in the bathroom of her school. When she denied that she had been smoking, and her assistant principal searched her purse for evidence, this case was set in motion.
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