Law360, New York (August 20, 2012, 6:51 PM ET) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Friday continued his push to mandate widespread drug tests for state employees, telling the Eleventh Circuit that the tests are constitutional and workers are free to pass on the tests by declining the accompanying job.
In his opening brief before the appeals court, Scott voiced his disagreement with a Florida federal court's April ruling that his mandatory drug tests flew in the face of the Fourth Amendment's bar on unreasonable searches, saying that under his mandate employees voluntarily consent to the...
Fla. Gov. Takes Workplace Drug Testing Fight To 11th Circ.
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