Fisher v. Raleigh County Community Action Association, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the hand-search of a student’s person because he was tardy for school (which resulted in the discovery of drugs in the student’s pocket) violated the student’s Fourth Amendment rights
• holding the hand-search of a student’s person because he was tardy for school, which resulted in the discovery of drugs in the student’s pocket, violated the student’s Fourth Amendment rights
• noting that school officials physically touching the student by conducting a “pat-down” “exacerbate[d] the intrusive nature of the search” that resulted in illegal drugs being found on the student’s person
• “Rather than a search conducted to promote students’ welfare and safety, the policy here operated, in large part, with a law- enforcement purpose. As a result, the intrusiveness of the search under a constitutional analysis is very, very high.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).