Court case: New Jersey vs. T.L.O.

The court case I researched was New Jersey vs. T.L.O. The court case is about a freshman student, T.L.O. who was caught in the bathroom with another girl who was smoking marijuana. The girls were caught by the Vice Principle of the school, the other girl told the vice principle she was smoking but T.L.O. said that she wasn't smoking. The Vice Principle had reason to search T.L.O's purse and he found cigarettes in plain view, so that gave him more reason to search her purse throughly. He then found marijuana, rolling paper, a wade of $1 dollar bills, and a pipe. Then that lead to her confession, that she was selling marijuana to the students, but then T.L.O. sued the school because she believed that her Fourth Amendment was violated. The court said that the school had a reason to search her purse because she was selling marijuana to students.
This affected us because schools can now search your locker or bag for illegal drugs that can't be at the school. This wouldn't violate our Fourth Amendment if the school did this because they have a duty to get our school environment safe for us.

Qualified but not Absolute

Our right that we have in the United States our not always absolute. What this means is that our freedom of that right but other laws interfere with it sometimes. So you are qualified for that right but you get in trouble because other laws interfere with that right. Like if you were picketing a office it started out in an orderly manner but then it gets out of hand and someone from the office got hurt from the picketing you would get in trouble. Your right was qualified but then you broke it when someone got hurt.

The Future of the News

I think that in 10 or so years that there won't be anymore newspaper. All the newspapers will shut down and go bankrupt like some now. The papers will be online like they are now, because it's easier and faster to look up or update a post. The newspapers online will cost money but not as much as they do now, but I think people will pay that money. They would pay the money because it will be cheaper than getting a newspaper delivered to you. That's what I think the news will be like in the future.