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 * The Student Activities Drug Testing Policy adopted by the Tecumseh, Oklahoma School District (School District) requires all middle and high school students to consent to urinalysis testing for drugs in order to participate in any extracurricular activity.


 * Two Tecumseh High School students and their parents brought suit, alleging that the policy violates the Fourth Amendment. The District Court granted the School District summary judgment.


 * The Court of Appeals held that the policy violated the Fourth Amendment.


 * The appellate court concluded that before imposing a suspicionless drug-testing program a school must demonstrate some identifiable drug abuse problem among a sufficient number of those tested, such that testing that group will actually redress its drug problem, which the School District had failed to demonstrate.


 * In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that it wasn't unconstitutional for the school to force the student athletes to take a drug test inorder to be allowed to participate in a school sport activity.

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