Supreme Court Rules Drug Use Grounds For Federal Eviction | Court Gives Drug Users Heave-Ho

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2002

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that government agencies can use aggressive eviction policies to get rid of drug users in public housing.

Justices, without dissent, said they had no problem with a law that allows entire families to be evicted from public housing for the drug use by one member.

The losers were four elderly California tenants who received eviction notices. They challenged the zero-tolerance policy for drugs in federally subsidized housing and won in lower courts.

Justices dismissed the tenants' arguments that they should be allowed to avoid eviction by showing that they were unaware of wrongdoing.

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