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Preliminary Injunction Issued, Class Certified in NY Jail Strip Searches

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Class Certification. Location: New York.

This opinion follows the hearing planned in the previous opinion. The
evidence showed that the defendants had nominally changed their policy from
one of strip searching everyone brought to the jail to strip searching only
those who met one of ten enumerated criteria; it also showed that the
policy wasn't ...

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