[@theCBE]

Your title is misleading. No where does it say sniffer-dog searches are unlawful. It says that in these two cases they were unlawful because there was no resonable suspicion to justify searching the two people that were caught with drugs.

In one case they searched a school while confining kids in the classrooms. They received no tips that there were drugs in the school, and on the information they had at the time there was no way they would have been given a warrant to search the school.

In the second case the police officer searched the man because as he came off the bus the man gave him an "elongated stare". He actually searched the guy because he looked at him funny.

I would think that allowing the two cases to stand would set a much worse precedent then allowing their appeals.