New+Jersey+v.+T.L.O.+-+8

New Jersey v. T.L.O. - 1985- ** **This case is about a 14 year old girl, who was a freshmen at her school, and she got caught smoking in the girls restroom. The principle questioned her and then searched her purse to find evidence. T ** **hey found a **** bag of marijuana ** p **araphernalia, ** a ** pipe, ** p **lastic bags, ** s **ubstanial amount of money, and ** i **ndex cards with students names on them that owed her money. ** **The major questioned that was asked by the court was, Did the search violate the fourth and fourteenth amendment? ** The court answered, n **o, because it was associated with searches on school grounds. The courts requirement is that all searches are only to be conducted when it is a "probable cause" that the student has violated the law. ** **The impact on this case was, ****It could have affected school policy- students might not be aloud to have book bags, purses, and or bags to carry their books in throughout the day because of this incident. ****It could have affected student rights- students might have to get there bags/purses checked every day before entering the school and going to class. ****It also could have affected Juvenile Rights in school. ****<span style="background-position: 0% 50%; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12.5pt; background-image: none; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: white;">The only dissenting argument was by John Paul Stevens, who fears that school officials will search students bags for trivial (little, unnecessary) things, and that it will lead to them finding other things that doesn’t have to do with why they are looking in your bag in the first place. ****<span style="background-position: 0% 50%; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12.5pt; background-image: none; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; background-color: white;">example- if a teacher comes up to you and sees texting in your purse and asks to look in your bag to take your phone, when they look in your bag they might find other things that your not aloud to have in school, like, cigarettes, or other things that is not aloud, that is what Stevens is afraid of happening, that students will get in trouble for having things in their purses, and teachers finding out about those just by trying to take their phone out of their purse.
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Pictures: First: Weed, Second: Plastic Bags, Third: Marijuana Cigarettes, Fourth: Supreme Court Justices, and Bottom: TLO **



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