Commonwealth v. Lawrence, E.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a concrete special need existed for random drug testing in part because of evidence of drug and alcohol abuse by railroad employees
• holding that statute requiring all state office candidates to submit to and pass drug test was unconstitutional
• holding that a concrete special need existed for random drug testing in part because of evidence of drug and alcohol abuse by railroad employees
• holding that “government-ordered ‘collection and testing of urine’ are “searches under the Fourth Amendment” (citing Skinner, 489 U.S. at 617)
• holding that “government-ordered ‘collection and testing of urine’ are “searches under the Fourth Amendment” (citing Skinner, 489 U.S. at 617)
• concluding that a Georgia statute that required candidates for public office, including incumbents, to submit to a drug test is an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment because it was not based on an \individualized suspicion of wrongdoing\

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