A similarity between the Supreme Court decisions in New Jersey v. T. L. O. and Vernonia v. Acton is that

In New Jersey v. T. L. O., the Court recognized that students have Fourth Amendment privacy rights, but allowed school officials to search students under a less demanding standard than probable cause. In Vernonia v. Acton, the Court upheld suspicionless drug testing of student athletes, balancing their privacy against schools’ responsibility to protect students. Together, the cases show that students have rights, but those rights may be limited in the school setting.

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