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...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...
...Stephen G. Breyer, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and former professor at Harvard Law School...
Occupation: Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since...
Experience: Circuit Judge 1980-present...
Similarly, Breyer's decision to leave his professorship at the Law School to accept an appointment to the circuit court could be a drawback...