Safety Trumps Privacy in Court Case

Last Friday the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that safety concerns, coupled with the ability of transportation workers to produce false urine samples, to allow drug testers to utilize a “direct observation technique” when collecting urine samples.  The government’s interest in providing a “drug free” work place for transportation workers trumps the workers’ right to privacy.

George H. Harrison is the principle surveyor with Harrison & Associates – Marine Surveyors.   Harrison & Associates is proud to provide comprehensive marine surveying services throughout the Delaware River , Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay regions.  We routinely perform surveys in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and coastal North Carolina and are proud to serve clients throughout the world.

Accused Maersk Alabama Pirate Indicted

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, one of the Somali pirates accused of hijacking the Maersk Alabama has been indicted on 10 counts. The charges are: piracy, possession of a machine gun while seizing a ship by force, hostage-taking, conspiracy to commit hostage-taking, possession of a machine gun during hostage-taking, kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and possession of a machine gun during kidnapping.

Muse is to be arraigned on Thursday in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York. Eight of the ten counts carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.

George H. Harrison is the principle surveyor with Harrison & Associates – Marine Surveyors.   Harrison & Associates is proud to provide comprehensive marine surveying services throughout the Delaware River , Delaware Bay and the Chesapeake Bay regions.  We routinely perform surveys in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and coastal North Carolina and are proud to serve clients throughout the world.