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DOE EX REL. DOE v. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DIST.

No. 03-3268.

380 F.3d 349 (2004)

Jane DOE, by her parents and next friends Mr. and Mrs. John DOE, individually and on behalf of a plaintiff class consisting of all secondary public school students who have started the seventh grade in the Little Rock School District as of the 1999-2000 school year, Appellant, v. LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 18, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Benca, argued, Little Rock, AR (John Wesley Hall, Jr., on the brief), for appellant.

Christopher Heller, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellee.

Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, BEAM, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to decide whether the practice of the Little Rock School District (LRSD) that subjects secondary public school students to random, suspicionless searches of their persons and belongings by school officials is unconstitutional. We conclude that such searches violate the students' fourth amendment rights because they unreasonably invade their legitimate expectations of privacy.

Jane Doe is a secondary...

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