Judge: Fla. worker drug testing unconstitutional

[RockaFowler]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/judge-fla-worker-drug-testing-unconstitutional-2326255.html?cxntcid=breaking_news

A Miami federal judge has declared that Gov. Rick Scott's order requiring drug testing for state workers is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro ruled Thursday that blanket testing of some 85,000 workers violates the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling could eventually have an impact on a new state law also permitting random worker drug testing.


This is a start. Now to get him and the rest of these nutbags voted out of our state. We need to take back our state once and for all

[qb]

1. I love it when the Constitution kicks repukes in the ass.

:bounce;

[liberalmike27]

9. I love it

When a judge actually follows or pays attention to the constitution, rather than rejecting it for whatever the popular attack on privacy of the day happens to be.

[Chipper Chat]

18. :bounce:

[qb]

21. !

:hi;

[CBGLuthier]

2. Now if only us regular citizens could get an extension of those rights

yeah I know it's because it's a government job but unequal protection is unequal protection.

[Not Me]

3. Damn activist judges

[jpak]

4. Drug test all registered republicans - and see how many are clean

yup

[sinkingfeeling]

5. But it's okay to drug test low-income people before they can get welfare?

[RockaFowler]

7. That's getting scrapped, too

It's on hold here currently because of the "activist judges"

pRick Scott is such a loser

[alfredo]

11. Doesn't Rick the prick have a financial tie to a drug testing lab?

[RockaFowler]

12. Yes he does

His wife owns Solantic

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

[Daniel537]

8. 2014 can't come soon enough.

Though knowing this state, it wouldn't surprise me if this guy actually got another term. I can already imagine his campaign slogan, "Drug Test Food Stamp recipients".

[HappyMe]

10. k&r

[mn9driver]

13. I've been "randomly" drug and alcohol tested for many years.

It's a Federal law for transportation workers in "safety critical" positions. The last time was just a couple weeks ago. It's annoying and unconstitutional, but nobody cares. I've gotten quite used to filling up the bottle and blowing in the tube in order to go to work.

[jwirr]

14. Hmmm, I know a lot of employers who do drug testing both random and before hiring. Will that all

be unconstitutional also or is this just in Florida?

[RockaFowler]

15. I think it was the fact that he was singling out particular workers only

It wasn't a blanket drug testing policy for the entire Government - just teachers or police.

[DaveJ]

16. A spattering of good news, but I doubt much will change

I'd like to see such rulings applied to private business, along with credit checks too. But how would that benefit the wealthy????

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RockaFowler.

[obxhead]

19. The headline could also read:

FL judge says 'hell no, you're not drug testing me or my friends.'

Now if we could just get ALL drug testing outlawed.

[usrname]

20. The thing that really gets me about these

abusive "laws" the GOP enact is not that they're unconstitutional. We all see through that. It's not that it's written to address a pandemic of illegal activities, but for the constitution, can't be enforced. It's that they're written just so the GOP can financially benefit by having companies they own or their friends own get paid to do the job of the law. We all know that Rick Scott's wife owns drug testing centers. This rule was written so she gets money from the gov't paid to her to do a job. A job created strictly just to benefit her company.

I believe this tit-for-tat situation is precisely a clear example of national socialism, or nazism.