Angela Lee Williams, a Minor, by Her Father and Next Friend, William Hardy Williams v. Jerald M. Ellington

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• holding that the defendant could not be held liable for the ratification of a search because the “single, isolated decision [could] hardly constitute the ‘moving force’ behind the alleged constitutional deprivation”
• noting that the reasonableness standard of T.L.O. has left courts “either reluctant or unable to define what type of official conduct” is prohibited
• noting that “[t]here was no history that the policy had been repeatedly or even sporadically misapplied by school officials in the past”
• noting that the reasonableness standard of T.L.O. has left courts “either reluctant or unable to define what type of official conduct” is prohibited
• noting that “[ajfter [the student’s] locker and purse were searched, it was reasonable for [the defendant] to suspect the girl may be concealing the contraband on her person”
• noting that “[a]fter [the student’s] locker and purse were searched, it was reason- able for [the defendant] to suspect the girl may be concealing the contraband on her person”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).