Eleventh Circuit· 2/18/1993

Fortner v. Thomas

Citations

983 F.2d 1024
24 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 1271
1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 2400

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recognizing “a prisoner’s constitutional right to bodily privacy” and explaining that “involuntary exposure of’ a person’s genitals “may be especially demeaning and humiliating” (quotation omitted and emphasis added)
explaining that a motion to dismiss is not a responsive pleading
recognizing “a prisoner’s constitutional right to bodily privacy because most people have ‘a special sense of privacy in their genitals, and involuntary exposure of them in the presence of people of the other sex may be especially demeaning and humiliating’”
recognizing prisoners’ “right to bodily privacy”
“[The] court has declined to define the precise parameters of a prisoner’s constitutional right to privacy.”
“most people have ‘a special sense of privacy in their genitals, and involuntary exposure of them in the presence of people of the other sex may be especially demeaning and humiliating.’”

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