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Article • February 15, 2012
Washington: $260,000 Settlement in Unlawful Strip Search and Taser Case by A woman who was illegally strip searched and then Tasered was awarded a $260,000 settlement against the City of Olympia, Washington. Cynthia Brown was arrested on August 19, 2008 for trespassing and taken to the Olympia City Jail. During …
Article • November 15, 2011
Feds Can Collect DNA as a Condition of Bail, Ninth Circuit Decides by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample Amendments to the Bail Reform Act requiring a defendant to consent to the collection of DNA before being granted bail do not offend the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for …
Article • November 15, 2011
Forcible Removal of Drugs from Rectum Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Bruce Guyton recommended the denial of a motion to suppress evidence recovered from a defendant’s rectum during a forced body cavity search. Felix Booker was taken to the emergency …
Article • November 15, 2011
Summary Judgment Denied for Male Cops Who Strip Searched Female Arrestees by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez has granted in part and denied in part a motion for partial Summary Judgment in a lawsuit by three women who allege they were forced to expose themselves to male cops. Cristen …
90% Remittitur of $750,000 Strip Search Verdict Vacated; Plaintiffs Accept $440,385.08 on Remand by Mark Wilson On June 30, 2010, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court had abused its discretion in reducing a $750,000 jury award to $75,000 in a case raising illegal strip search …
Article • September 15, 2011 • from PLN September, 2011
$4.5 Million Settlement in Texas County Jail Strip Search Suit by On January 12, 2011, a Texas federal court approved a $4.5 million settlement in a civil rights lawsuit involving suspicionless strip searches of people booked into the Bexar County Detention Center (BCDC) in San Antonio, Texas for minor offenses. …
Article • September 15, 2011
Strip Searches of Juveniles Constitutional by The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that it is not unconstitutional to strip search juvenile arrestees. The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit filed by then 16-year-old Jodie Smook, who was arrested for violating local curfew laws. Smook was taken to the …
Article • August 15, 2011
$3 Million Settlement in Kentucky Strip Search Class Action by By David M. Reutter A $3 million fund has been established to settle a class action lawsuit against Kentucky’s Hopkins County Detention Center (HCDC) for strip-searching the class members. The class consisted of an “Entry” class and a “Release” class. …
Fulton County’s Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held unconstitutional a blanket strip search policy of arrestees as part of their point-of-booking into jail, of detainees who posted bond or were ordered released at the jail before booking was started or completed, and …
Article • July 15, 2011
Strip and Body Cavity Searches for Civil Contempt Arrestee Unjustified by Brandon Sample By Brandon Sample On March 28, 2008, U.S. District Judge Salvador E. Casellas denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a civil rights action challenging a strip and body-cavity search. Carmen Figueroa-Flores was involved in …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
Third Circuit Holds Blanket Policy of Strip Searching Arrestees, Absent Reasonable Suspicion, is Constitutional; Cert Granted by Michael Brodheim In a class-action suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a federal district court in New Jersey held that a blanket policy of strip searching arrestees charged with non-indictable offenses, absent …
Article • July 15, 2011 • from PLN July, 2011
San Francisco Blanket Jail Strip Search Policy Upheld in Ninth Circuit En Banc Ruling by Michael Brodheim In a class action § 1983 suit brought by pre-arraignment jail detainees, a divided Ninth Circuit panel held that San Francisco’s blanket policy of strip searching all arrestees classified for the jail’s general …
Article • May 15, 2011 • from PLN May, 2011
Pennsylvania Jail Pays $3 Million to Settle Class-Action Strip Search Suit by A $3 million settlement was reached in a class-action civil rights complaint that challenged the blanket strip search policy at Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County Jail (ACJ). The class, which was certified in June 2008, includes almost 13,000 people who …
Article • April 15, 2011
Class-Action Status Granted in Erie County, New York, Strip Search Lawsuit by On June 6, 2010, a New York federal court granted class-action status to the plaintiffs in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit challenging the blanket strip search policy in place in Erie County, New York, jails …
Article • April 15, 2011
Summary Judgment Denied in an Unconstitutional Strip Search by A Pennsylvania Federal District Court denied defendant’s summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging an unconstitutional strip search that violated a prisoner’s Fourth Amendment rights. Upon being booked into the Chester County Jail on September 13, 2007 for DUI and other traffic …
Article • April 15, 2011
California: Penal Code Section 4573 Applies to Arrestees Who, When Booked, are Found in Possession of Controlled Substances by The California Supreme Court has held that Penal Code section 4573, which criminalizes the act of “knowingly bring[ing]” a controlled substance into a jail or prison, applies to a person in …
Article • April 15, 2011 • from PLN April, 2011
Massachusetts Strip Search Class-Action Nets $1,162,468 by Mark Wilson Massachusetts has agreed to pay $1,162,468 to settle a class-action suit on behalf of 486 detainees who were strip searched without cause at the Franklin County Jail. The sheriff maintained a policy of routinely strip searching all detainees who were admitted …
Article • February 15, 2011 • from PLN February, 2011
$33 Million Settlement in New York City Jails Strip Search Class-Action by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 16, 2010, New York City agreed to settle a long-standing class-action lawsuit challenging the strip search policy used in the city’s jails. The settlement was for over $33 million, which included …
Brief • January 20, 2011
Barnes v. District of Columbia, DC, 3rd Amended Complaint, Jail Strip Search and Late Releases, 2011 Case 1:06-cv-00315-RCL Document 329 Filed 01/20/11 Page 1 of 41 Case 1:06-cv-00315-RCL Document 329 Filed 01/20/11 Page 2 of 41 Case 1:06-cv-00315-RCL Document 329 Filed 01/20/11 Page 3 of 41 Case 1:06-cv-00315-RCL Document 329 …
Article • September 15, 2010 • from PLN September, 2010
$2.9 Million Settlement in Suit against GEO over Suspicionless Strip Searches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On May 20, 2010, a $2.9 million settlement was reached in a Pennsylvania federal civil rights lawsuit against GEO Group for performing suspicionless strip searches of people arrested for minor, non-violent, non-drug offenses. …
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