· 2/24/2000
Jess Burgess and Marilyn Thompkins v. Louis Lowery
Citations
- 201 F.3d 942
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- recognizing “a long and unbroken series of decisions by our sister circuits” finding “strip searches of prison visitors . . . unconstitutional in the absence of reasonable suspicion that the visitor was carrying contraband”
- explaining possibility that “the existence of the right was so clear… that no one thought it worthwhile to litigate the issue.”
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Judges: Posner, Cudahy, Kanne
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