ORLANDO, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–September 26, 2011. At a hearing today at the United States courthouse in Orlando, the ACLU of Florida defended the Constitutional rights of Floridians applying for the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program against a new law which requires TANF applicants to submit to a mandatory suspicionless drug test. The judge today heard arguments on two issues: the constitutionality of the drug-testing law, and whether the plaintiff could represent a class.
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