Court Opinion

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Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:43.337063+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:29.310628
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Justice Marshall,
with whom Justice Brennan joins, dissenting.
For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion in Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives’ Assn., ante, p. 635, I also dissent from the Court’s decision in this case. Here, as in Skinner, the Court’s abandonment of the Fourth Amendment’s express requirement that searches of the person rest on *680probable cause is unprincipled and unjustifiable. But even if I believed that balancing analysis was appropriate under the Fourth Amendment, I would still dissent from today’s judgment for the reasons stated by Justice Scalia in his dissenting opinion, post this page, and for the reasons noted by the dissenting judge below relating to the inadequate tailoring of the Customs Service’s drug-testing plan. See 816 F. 2d 170, 182-184 (CA5 1987) (Hill, J.).