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· 8/29/1951

Gospodonovich v. Clements

Citations

  • 108 F. Supp. 234
  • 1951 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2381

How courts have described this case

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

  • following Lyons, “the Second Circuit has held that a plaintiff may have standing to seek injunctive relief against a police department if the alleged improper actions were conducted pursuant to a uniform practice or official policy”
  • use of unconstitutional strip search policy does not automatically render each search unconstitutional
  • “[I]t would be improper to let manageability concerns overwhelm the predominance decision.”
  • named plaintiff “adequate representative on the issue for which class treatment is appropriate because he has the same interests as the rest of the proposed class in establishing that defendants maintained an unconstitutional blanket strip search policy! ]”
  • plaintiffs established numerosity based on estimates from statistical data

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Judges: Christenberry

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