"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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I don't think anyone, anywhere honestly believed that the search was reasonable (except maybe Tribesman), thus the decision that it was an "unreasonable" search.
So it was an unreasonable search but the people doing it didn't do an unreasonable search because of established law.“clearly established law [did] not show that the search violated the Fourth Amendment ,”
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
No more the search was illegal but not stupid enough for the officals to be sued for everything they're worth.
Yesterday 08:43
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The officials were granted Qualified Immunity, shielding them personally from liability. However, the School District is still open to civil damages, which could be substantial.
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