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To: blau993
Constituional rights supercede any signed agreement. The requirement of someone to sign away their Constitutional rights to live somewhere represents duress to my way of thinking. The agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Imagine a landlord demanding that a black renter agree not to use the white laundry room before being allowed to rent. Think that paper would stand up in court?

25 posted on 09/23/2002 1:45:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
Constituional rights supercede any signed agreement.

That's not true at all. I may have "freedom of speech" but I've signed corporate agreements in which I cannot speak ill of the company (whether truthful or not) as a condition of employement or severance package. These are binding and can be upheld in court.

28 posted on 09/23/2002 1:50:15 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: DoughtyOne
Constituional rights supercede any signed agreement.

I agree with that as a general proposition. What you are likely to find in this situation, however, is that a court would say the university had a right to reasonably inspect the rooms for unsafe conditions and material and that the students, warned in advance of this right of inspection, (a) had no expectation of privacy, and (b) had consented to the searches.

39 posted on 09/23/2002 2:16:05 PM PDT by blau993
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