POLICEMAN'S BENEV. ASS'N OF N.J. v. WASHINGTON TP.

No. 87-5793.

850 F.2d 133 (1988)

POLICEMAN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY, LOCAL 318 and Edmund Giordano, Individually, and as President of the Policeman's Benevolent Association of New Jersey, Local 318 v. TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON (GLOUCESTER COUNTY), a Municipal Corporation Under the Laws of New Jersey, John Robertson, Mayor, Leonard Simmons, Daniel Mangini, Margaret Smith, Richard Marsella, and Virginia Weber, Council Members. Appeal of TOWNSHIP OF WASHINGTON and John Robertson, Mayor.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Alacqua (argued), Turnersville, N.J., for appellants.

Ralph Henry Colflesh, Jr. (argued), Colflesh & Burris, Moorestown, N.J., for appellees.

James Katz, Tomar, Seliger, Simonoff, Adourian & O'Brien, Haddonfield, N.J., for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.

Before GIBBONS, Chief Judge, and MANSMANN and COWEN, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 28, 1988.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Chief Judge:

The Township of Washington, New Jersey, appeals from a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, Policemen's Benevolent Association of New Jersey, Local 318, and Edmund Giordano, a police officer, in a suit challenging on Fourth Amendment grounds the Township's drug testing program for police officers. The district court held that a drug testing program...

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