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<text id=91TT0459>
<title>
Mar. 04, 1991: Business Notes:Law:Drug Testing
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 04, 1991 Into Kuwait!
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 65
Business Notes
LAW
Drug Testing For Highflyers
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<p> The last thing an airline passenger wants is a pilot whose
head is in the clouds. The Supreme Court last week reduced the
likelihood of getting one when it let stand a Federal Aviation
Administration rule requiring a "comprehensive antidrug
program"--random, unannounced urine tests. The action affects
more than half a million workers in the air-travel industry,
including flight crews and air-traffic controllers.
</p>
<p> A San Diego airline pilot launched the legal challenge to
the FAA rule, citing Fourth Amendment prohibitions of
unreasonable searches. San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals upheld the FAA, and the high court leaves that
decision intact--ending the case, but not the controversy.
"There's not really a serious drug problem in the federal work
force," says a spokeswoman for the American Federation of
Government Employees, which has filed several anti-drug-test
lawsuits. "We think the government could be better spending the
$79 million that it's got committed to drug testing this year."
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</body></article>
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