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Savana Redding outside the Court (AP Photo)
A ruling was made yesterday in the strip search case brought to the Supreme Court by Savana Redding.
The Court ruled that strip searches in schools would only be allowable in cases where the students were in danger. In what could be his last majority opinion Justice Souter stated what was fairly obvious: there was no reason to believe that there were drugs in Ms. Redding's underwear.
Upon hearing of the 8-1 decision, I was almost certain that Justice Scalia would have been the lone dissenter, but Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of the school. Thomas' dissent stated his wish to return to the in loco parentis doctrine, allowing for the school to act in place of a parent. If parents don't want their students to receive this kind of supervision by schools, Thomas offered a solution in his opinion:
"If parents do not like the rules imposed by those schools, they can seek redress in school boards or legislatures; they can send their children to private schools or home school them; or they can simply move."
For now, maybe Savana Redding can attain some kind of inner peace, knowing that the school officials who strip searched her were in the wrong.
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