Harvard students challenge TSA

[avaistheone1]

Source: Boston Globe

Two Harvard Law School students have sued the Transportation Security Administration, seeking to restrict the use of full-body scanners and pat-downs at airports and joining a growing number of lawsuits filed across the country that claim the screening procedures infringe on constitutional rights to privacy.

The body scans, which show images of airline passengers’ naked bodies, and the pat-downs, which include touching groin areas, violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, according to the complaint filed Monday in US District Court in Boston. The students, Jeffrey Redfern and Anant Pradhan, are asking the court to ban the TSA from using the screening procedures without reasonable suspicion.

Margaret Paget, a partner at the Boston law firm Sherin and Lodgen, said the Harvard students, who are representing themselves in the suit, have a valid claim and a chance of winning.

“We all expected this case was going to be brought by the ACLU,’’ she said. “There’s a widespread public concern over the scope and extent of the searches.’’




Read more: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/12/02/harvard_students_challenge_tsa/

[fatbuckel]

1. The title is misleading. Only TWO students involved.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

4. Students = Plural = >1

misleading?

[24601]

2. My wife is flying today. Romantic that I am, I recommended

jumping jacks.

[blackspade]

3. I hope they are successful!

I have no interest in the radiation nude-o-scopes or the sexual assault gropings that the TSA is using.
Hopefully we will return to our pre-911 mentality over the next couple of years.

[wordpix]

5. why aren't they using dogs and using psychological profiling?

As one who got groped last summer in Denver, I say right on, Harvard students!