mar 21, 2001 - Ferguson v. City of Charleston

Description:

This court case questioned whether a state hospital's performance of a diagnostic test to obtain a patient's (in this case, pregnant women) criminal conduct (drug usage) for law enforcement purposes is a violation of the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search) is the patient has not consented to the procedure. This court case concluded that this diagnostic test is unconstitutional when the patient (pregnant women) does not consent to this.

Significance: This court case gives women more rights and fights against sexism that says that testing women for drugs (that is not consensual by the women) are fine.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000/99-936