The City of Woodburn, Oregon, requires conditionally-accepted candidates for any position to take a pre-employment drug test. A finalist for the position of part-time library page challenged the requirement under the Fourth Amendment. The 9th Circuit has now upheld the invalidation of the policy, not facially, but as applied to this plaintiff.
The Court of Appeals held […]
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