[rabscuttle385]

The court's 9-2 ruling could have a significant impact on future database searches.

*Ping!*

[freebilly]

They finally got something right....

[antiunion person]

Crazy me, but don't governmental agencies like the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals and Congress have bigger fish to fry than a bunch of baseball players killing themselves using steroids?? Congress could be doing like REAL business like stopping Obama from destroying what's left to our country. The Ninth Circus could be just taking their jobs more seriously than having more of their decisions turned over by the Supreme Court. I think the Supreme Court is busy enough not to have to go back and clean up the San Francisco based Ninth Circus’ messes.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2009/08/26/ComprehensiveDrugTestingSummary.pdf

Here is the court summary and the names of the judges who in the majority

[bamahead]

The court's 9-2 ruling could have a significant impact on future database searches..."Why just that directory and not the entire hard drive? Why just this computer and not the one in the next room and the next room after that?"



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[ShadowAce]

[Still Thinking]

The tests were conducted on all Major League players at the time, with the guarantee that the results would be confidential and there would be no penalties for testing positive. The purpose was to determine if five percent or more of the players would test positive, the threshold agreed to by the Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association as grounds for future testing.

I doubt that was ever the intent of the testing in the first place. Why were the samples traceable to specific players? Anonymity and immunity from punishment would have been assured had the samples been collected in unlabeled bottles and analyzed under the supervision of representatives from both parties, and the samples then destroyed. When there's such a simple way to assure the results they promise and yet they don't do it, one has to ask why.

[microgood]

The judges ruled that law-enforcement agents went far beyond the scope of the warrant authorizing a search of the records of 10 ballplayers for whom the government had established probable cause.

Federal government law enforcement officials abused their power? Say it isn't so.