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· 8/25/2009

Bame v. Dillard

Citations

  • 647 F. Supp. 2d 43
  • 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75375
  • 2009 WL 2596512

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that the plaintiffs “were placed in holding cells again, exclusively with one another. They were not commingled with the general inmate population.”
  • emphasizing, in finding that the strip searches at issue were constitutional, that arrestees were not going to be placed in the general prison population
  • emphasizing, in finding that the strip searches at issue were constitutional, that arrestees were -12- not going to be placed in the general prison population
  • explaining Marshal Dillard’s practice of routinely performing “strip searches of all detained arrestees during the entire thirteen years he was Marshal”
  • plaintiffs were “held together at all times and not commingled with the general inmate population”
  • “Superior Court Marshals act under color of federal law, and thus do not qualify as state actors for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983.”

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Judges: Rosemary M. Collyer

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