An Alabama student's lawsuit against the Lamar County School District has been revived by a federal appeals court.
The student sued the school system saying when she was 14 she was strip-searched by school officials who suspected her of smoking marijuana.
On Friday, the U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed the original ruling that the school officials had qualified immunity.
The original suit, which contends the then eighth-grade student was strip-searched twice in 2017, will now proceed after the 11th circuit decision said the school officials had no specific reason to think the student hid marijuana in her underwear.
