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Smith, Joseph M.; Strope, John L., Jr. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1995
Examines 15 cases dealing with dormitory searches covering a 31-year period to determine how the Fourth Amendment applies to dormitory searches. The prevailing consensus is that if a university says and thinks it has the right to conduct a search of a room for health, safety, and maintenance reasons, then, in most circumstances, it has this right.…
Descriptors: College Housing, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Dormitories
