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The Supreme Court ruled today <\/strong><\/a>that Arizona school officials violated the law and constitutional rights when they forcibly strip-searched a 13 year old girl to see if she was hiding painkillers in her underwear.<\/p>\n

It is good that the Court did not sprinkle its holy water on the search. But the court’s refusal to hold the assistant principal who ordered the search personally liable makes a mockery of its objections to the search. The case is being sent back to lower courts to assess whether any damages should be awarded. Yet, the court’s decision granting immunity to all school officials involved may be far more important than its mild criticism of the search. The fact that taxpayers get whacked for officials’ abuses will have no more effect in curbing illegal school searches than have the taxpayer liability for police brutality suits have curbed rampaging police departments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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