Police just need to get a search warrant or the individual's consent, he said. In lower court action, the district court sided with the city in 1996. The controversial policy was discontinued, even before the high court heard arguments in this case. The hospital temporarily suspended the program in 1994 after investigations by two federal agencies, and later amended it so women who tested positive would be reported to the Department of Social Services rather than the police. The case is Ferguson vs. Charleston.
Court bars drug-testing of pregnant women.
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