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Article • February 15, 2009 • from PLN February, 2009
$4.5 Million Settlement in New Jersey Jail Strip Search Lawsuit by $4.5 Million Settlement in New Jersey Jail Strip Search Lawsuit New Jersey’s Cumberland County has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action strip search lawsuit. This is another huge settlement in Fourth Amendment claims of this …
Article • January 15, 2009 • from PLN January, 2009
$5 Million Settlement For Illegal Strip Searches In Las Cruces, NM Jail by $5 Million Settlement For Illegal Strip Searches In Las Cruces, NM Jail An estimated 11,000 Doña Ana County Detention Center detainees who were illegally strip searched between March 7, 2003 and March 7, 2006 have settled their …
Article • January 15, 2009
Seized Nebraska Evidence Ordered Returned After Charges Dismissed by Nebraska State pro se prisoner Timothy Agee appealed the denial of a motion to order the County Sheriff to return his seized property after his theft charge was dismissed. The denial was reversed. Agee was charged separately in 2004 with theft …
California: Arrestee Not Guilty of “Bringing” Drugs into Jail by by John E. Dannenberg The California Court of Appeal has reversed the conviction of a Kings County man who was convicted of “bringing drugs into a jail” in violation of Penal Code § 4573, when the act of “bringing” was …
$13.5 Million Florida Jail Strip Search Settlement by Florida’s Broward County Sheriff’s Office has agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it illegally strip searched prisoners charged with minor offenses. The settlement ends a class action filed in state court in 2002. Under the settlement, each class …
Article • August 15, 2008
Maine Jail Not Liable for Strip Search Policy by The plaintiff was arrested for an unpaid traffic fine, which in fact had been paid, and was strip-searched on admission to the jail. Nobody could be held liable for this, since there was no evidence of a municipal custom. Though the …
Article • July 15, 2008
PLRA Bars Damages for Jail Strip Search Suit by A New Mexico federal district court applied the injury requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act to hold that two female pretrial detainees cannot recover damages for a Fourth Amendment claim of unreasonable strip searches. The matter proceeded to a jury …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
$25.5 Million Awarded in California County Jail Strip Search Suit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg The County of San Bernardino, California has agreed to settle a federal class action lawsuit filed against its Sheriff’s Department in 2005 for $25.5 million – one of the largest such payouts on …
Article • June 15, 2008 • from PLN June, 2008
Pierce County, WA Jail Settles Jail Strip-Search Suit For $667,000 by Pierce County, Washington settled a class action suit challenging unconstitutional strip searches of specified pretrial detainees in its county jail for $200,000 in damages, $15,000 in administrative costs and $452,000 in attorney fees. In addition, the Superior Court of …
Article • February 15, 2008 • from PLN February, 2008
Nevada Jail Strip Searches Before Release on Own Recognizance Unconstitutional by A Nevada federal district court has held that the Washoe County Sheriff Department?s (WCSD) policy of strip-searching all arrestees who self-surrender and are then released on their own recognizance (OR) is unconstitutional. Before the Court was a summary judgment …
Article • January 15, 2008
Washington Strip Search Statute Narrowly Construed; Inapplicable to Arrestees Confined Pending Release by The Washington State Court of Appeals held that state law does not authorize the automatic strip search of arrestees in custody who are pending release on bail or personal recognizance. Abra Plemmons was charged in Pierce County, …
Strip-Searched Jail Arrestees May be Certified as Class for Liability by by Matthew T. Clarke On August 24, 2006, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal district court in New York erred when it refused to certify non-felony arrestees who were strip searched pursuant to a blanket …
Article • January 15, 2008 • from PLN January, 2008
$25,000 Settlement in Miami False Arrest, Strip Search Suit by While driving in Florida?s Miami-Dade County, a 32-year-old female was pulled over for allegedly following another car too closely. The Miami-Dade County police officer arrested her for an outstanding warrant for driving with an invalid driver?s license. She was arrested …
Article • December 15, 2007
Maine Strip Search Case Nets $825,000 in Attorney Fees by In a class action strip-search case against York County, Maine, that settled for $3.3 million, a federal court awarded class counsel attorney fees totaling 25 percent of the settlement, $825,000. The court also directed counsel to provide documentation of "accrued …
Article • December 15, 2007
Plaintiffs Granted SJ in Maine Strip-Search Case by A federal court in Maine granted a class of detainees summary judgment against the Knox County Jail for strip searches conducted without individualized suspicion. Class counsel called the decision a "slam dunk," while defense counsel complained that the judge "got it wrong." …
Article • December 15, 2007
$35,000 Settlement in Maine Jail Strip-Search Case by After he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge, Geoffrey V.V. Wood was strip-searched at Maine's Hancock County Jail. Wood filed suit, alleging the strip search procedures were illegal and unconstitutional. He settled his lawsuit in May 2004 for $35,000. See: Wood v. …
$56,000 Settlement for Torturous Eight Hours in New Jersey Jail by In April 2007, the Borough of Bradley Beach, New Jersey, agreed to pay $56,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging multiple constitutional violations by a woman who spent eight hours in the Borough?s jail. Plaintiff Aimee Sliker was arrested …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Connecticut Strip Search Suit Settles For $2.5 Million by The State of Connecticut will pay $2.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that alleged the state maintained an unconstitutional practice of strip searching all incoming prisoners at the New Haven Community Correction Center (NHCCC). Plaintiff Charles Campbell claimed that …
Article • November 15, 2007 • from PLN November, 2007
Cook County, Illinois, To Pay $4,575,000 for Nonconsensual STD Testing by On July 10, 2007, Cook County, Illinois, agreed to pay $4,575,000 to settle a federal class action lawsuit that alleged prisoners were subjected to nonconsensual testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) during intake at Chicago?s Cook County jail. Plaintiffs …
San Mateo County, California, Settles Strip-Search Suit for $1.9 Million by On February 5, 2007, San Mateo County, California, agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that an estimated 1,200 women were illegally strip-searched at the county jail between February 3, 2002, and December 2, …
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