Opinion

York v. Wahkiakum School District No. 200

  • 163 Wash. 2d 297
Court
Washington Supreme Court
Filed
Mar 13, 2008
Status
Published
Author
Chambers
On the bench
Chambers, Johnson, Madsen, Sanders
Cited by
64 cases
Authority
More cited than 16.1%

holding school district’s random drug testing of student athletes as unconstitutional under article I, section 7

How later courts described this case

  • holding school district’s random drug testing of student athletes as unconstitutional under article I, section 7
  • declining to recognize “special needs” exception to warrant requirement and holding warrantless and suspicionless random drug testing of student athletes violates Washington State Constitution
  • holding that random drug testing of student athletes violated article I, section 7
  • "Students `do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door.'" (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565, 574, 95 S.Ct. 729, 42 L.Ed.2d 725 (1975))

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

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(concurring) — I concur fully in the well reasoned majority opinion. I write separately to observe that on this day a majority of my colleagues has found a greater privacy interest in a person’s urine than they recently found in a person’s saliva and the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) it contains. See State v. Athan, 160 Wn.2d 354, 374 , 158 P.3d 27, 37 (2007); cf. State v. Surge, 160 Wn.2d 65 , 156 P.3d 208 (2007). I find the juxtaposition of these two opinions paradoxical.

Chambers, J.

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