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Drug testing job applicants or student athletes, on appeal

Drug testing job applicants or student athletes, on appeal: Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article headlined "Court ruling limits employment drug testing" that begins, "A city can't require all job applicants to be tested for narcotics and must instead show why drug use in a particular job would be dangerous, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday." You can access yesterday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Elsewhere, The Seattle Times reports today that "Random student drug tests banned." And The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contains an article headlined "No random drug tests of student athletes; State Supreme Court rules against practice." Yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Court of Washington State consists of a plurality opinion and three concurring opinions (here, here, and here).

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).