Covino v. Patrissi

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “maintenance of prison security is not burdened unduly by the recognition that inmates do retain a limited right to bodily privacy”
• noting that while incarcerated individuals possess a limited right to bodily privacy, “some aspects of that right must yield to searches for contraband” to enable prison officials to maintain security and discipline in the prison
• appropriate inquiry is whether the prisoner “has exhibited a subjective expectation of privacy and whether society is prepared to recognize that expectation of privacy as reasonable”
• appropriate inquiry is whether the prisoner “has exhibited a subjective expectation of privacy and whether society is prepared to recognize that expectation of privacy as reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).