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houston16revival

(953 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:27 PM Apr 2016

Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Make You Leave Your Fourth Amendment Rights at the DMV [View all]

Can states make you abandon your Fourth Amendment rights if you want to enjoy the “privilege” of driving? That’s the question at the heart of one of the most consequential cases that the Supreme Court will decide this term, in terms of practical impact upon ordinary Americans. Birchfield v. North Dakota involves challenges to Minnesota and North Dakota statutes that make it a crime for drivers to refuse warrantless chemical tests of their blood, breath, or urine to detect the presence of alcohol. The Supreme Court consolidated three cases to be reviewed. Two involved individuals who were convicted for declining to take a blood test and a breath test, respectively; the third involved an individual who refused field sobriety tests, was taken to a hospital and subjected to a blood test, and was later convicted of drunk driving.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-bernick/supreme-court-to-decide-w_b_9742132.html

Hope they apply this to employment screening too. It's intrusive, embarrassing, annoying, and
logically backwards (guilty until proven innocent).

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