Chandler v. Miller

Chandler v. Miller
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 14, 1997 Decided April 15, 1997
Full case name	Walker L. Chandler v. Zell D. Miller, Governor of Georgia
Citations	520 U.S. 305 (more) 117 S. Ct. 1295; 137 L. Ed. 2d 513; 1997 U.S. LEXIS 2505; 65 U.S.L.W. 4243; 145 A.L.R. Fed. 657; 12 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1233; 97 Cal. Daily Op. Service 2723; 97 Daily Journal DAR 4831; 10 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 393
Case history
Prior	73 F.3d 1543 (11th Cir. 1996) (reversed)
Holding
The statute requiring drug testing for all candidates for state offices violated the Fourth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Breyer
Dissent	Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

Chandler v. Miller, 520 U.S. 305 (1997), was a case before the United States Supreme Court concerning the Constitutionality under the Fourth Amendment of a state statute requiring drug tests of all candidates for certain state offices. The case is notable as being the only one in recent years where the Supreme Court has upheld a challenge to a ballot access restriction from members of a third party, in this case the Libertarian Party of Georgia.