Document Type

Case Analysis

Publication Date

2000

Publication Information

2000 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cases 31.

Abstract

From the Issue

Does the special-needs doctrine permit warrantless drug tests of pregnant women at a public hospital when the hospital's testing policy is designed in cooperation with police and prosecutors, and when test results are shared with law-enforcement officials and used to present women with a choice between treatment and arrest?

Comments

Ferguson et al. v. City of Charleston, S.C. et al.
Docket No. 99-936
Argument Date: October 4, 2000
From: The Fourth Circuit

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