Stanford Wins Drug-Test Round

Stanford University won a temporary restraining order today against the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.’s mandatory drug testing program.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Conrad Rushing granted the order, temporarily preventing the NCAA from requiring that Stanford obtain written consents for drug testing from its athletes as a condition for participating in intercollegiate sports. “I am very pleased,” said Jennifer Hill, captain of Stanford’s women’s soccer team, who last spring joined the suit originally filed in January by diver Simone LeVant. “It means that we can play without giving up our constitutional rights.”