The Nation - News from June 10, 1987
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New York’s highest court ruled that a Long Island school district violated the constitutional rights of teachers by ordering them to submit to drug tests as a condition for receiving tenure. In a landmark decision that dealt a blow to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III’s contention that schoolteachers should be tested for drugs as a condition of employment, the Court of Appeals said the tests were a violation of the teachers’ constitutional rights, which protect against unreasonable search and seizure.
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