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PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD v. BD EDUC

70 N.Y.2d 57 (1987)

In the Matter of Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers, Respondent, v. Board of Education of the Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Sapir for appellants.

Daniel Galinson for respondent.

Norman H. Gross, Jay Worona and Mara B. Ginsberg for the New York State School Boards Association, amicus curiae.

Richard K. Willard, Assistant Attorney General (Leonard Schaitman and Robert V. Zener of counsel), for United States, amicus curiae.

James R. Sandner, Janis Levart Barquist, John H. Jurgens and Katherine A. Levine for New York State United Teachers, amicus curiae.

Minna J. Kotkin, Steven R. Shapiro and Richard Emery for the New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Judges KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur with Chief Judge WACHTLER; Judge SIMONS concurs in a separate opinion.

Chief Judge WACHTLER.

On this appeal we are asked to consider the constitutionality of a School District policy requiring all probationary teachers to submit to urinalysis to detect potential drug abuse. The courts below found that the practice constituted an illegal search and seizure in violation of the teachers' constitutional rights. The School District appeals.

In 1982 the Patchogue-Medford School...

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