The Nation - News from July 8, 1987
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The American Federation of Government Employees filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to stop Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole’s plan to begin random drug testing of up to 30,000 department employees. The union charged that the plan violates the Fourth and Fifth amendments’ protection from unreasonable searches and seizures and guaranteeing due process. The suit was in response to a memorandum last week advising that testing would begin within 60 days.
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