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Counseling or killing?

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Submitted by Dave Sherohman on August 10, 2009 - 10:39

So, yeah. We all know that Obama is trying to push major health care changes through the US Congress and it is, predictably, proving somewhat controversial and moving a bit slowly. I consider this to be a good thing, as I believe that the Founding Fathers deliberately engineered the American federal government to move slowly and actually do very little, if anything, unless it has overwhelming popular support1.

All-too-predictably, this is leading to a wave of political grandstanding, mis- or dis-information, and loonies coming out of the woodwork (on both sides).

Stripped of rights?

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Submitted by Dave Sherohman on June 26, 2009 - 11:26

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the October, 2003 strip search of a 13-year-old girl for ibuprofen was unconstitutional. Good to see they got that right, even if it wasn't quite unanimous.1

Unfortunately, if you read down to the final paragraph of that article, they got the secondary decision in the case wrong:

Quote:

The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that individual school officials were immune from damages because the girl's rights had not been clearly established at the time of the search. But the justices said Redding could seek damages against the school district if she can show the search was conducted under district policy.

Where is the accountability if the search is not found to have been conducted "under district policy"?