In Ferguson v. Charleston, SC the case was decided correctly. The Supreme Court's ruling that the Medical University of South Carolina's (MUSC) drug screening policy constituted a violation of the Fourth Amendment was the right decision because the search was indeed unreasonable (Ferguson v. Charleston (99-936) 532 US 67 (2001) ). MUSC had created a policy requiring that all pregnant women suspected of: lack of prenatal care, a known history of drug or alcohol abuse, intrauterine fetal death, or placental abortion drugs, be tested (Dubin, 1999, pg.279). . In 1989, thirty pregnant women who tested positive were reported to Charleston police for child abuse. MUSC and the Charleston Police Department had created this policy that required pregnant women to be screened and, if they tested positive, prosecuted. MUSC's policy violated women's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches because the screenings were nonconsensual, were performed without a warrant, and positive tests were turned over to police. Under the Fourth Amendment...