David Tarter v. William Raybuck

How courts have described this case

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• “declin[ing] to pass directly on the question of what fourth amendment standards would be applicable where the fruits of a search are turned over to law enforcement officials and used in proceedings against the student searched”
• r eversing award of attorney's fees to prevailing defendant in part because legal issue was not well-settled in circuit or country
• pre-T.L.O. case where search of student by police officer was initiated and noting that “[t]he presence of the police officers does take this directed by school official
• “[i]t is beyond peradven--ture that school children do not shed their constitutional rights at the school house gate.... School officials ... are agents of the government and are constrained by the Fourth Amendment.”
• burden on school official claiming student consented to search
• Christiansburg standards apply to section 1983 suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).