Aaron Fillmore v. Thomas F. Page

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that female guards may violate Eighth Amendment by strip searching male prisoners “in a harassing manner intended to humiliate and inflict psychological pain”
• concluding that a failure to intervene claim requires that a defendant have a realistic opportunity to step forward to prevent another officer from violating a plaintiff's rights.
• stating that “[i]n order for there to be a failure to intervene, it logically follows that there must exist an underlying constitutional violation”
• noting that the infliction of pain is per se malicious if it is done “totally without penological justification”
• noting that the infliction of pain is per se malicious if it is done “totally without penological justification”
• stating that “[i]n order for there to be a failure to intervene, it logically follows that there must exist an underlying constitutional violation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).