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· 8/10/1982

Floyd E. Cumbey v. Larry Meachum, Director, Gary Maynard, Warden, and Sharon Hartless

Citations

  • 684 F.2d 712
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 16723

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding plausible constitutional claim when plaintiff alleged naked male inmates were subjected to “a certain amount of viewing” by female officers
  • An inmate’s limited right to privacy may be violated where prison officials regularly watch inmates of the opposite sex shower
  • “Although the inmates’ right to privacy must yield to the penal institution’s need to maintain security, it does not vanish altogether.”
  • strip searches viewed by guards of opposite sex implicates right to privacy
  • male inmate challenging female guards viewing the strip search of a male detainee

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Judges: Barrett, Holloway, Logan, Per Curiam

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