· 10/26/1988
Robert Michenfelder v. George Sumner Lieutenant Koon C/o Horn C/o Leslie Sgt Jenae Holmes Sgt Stuffelbeam James Parker
Citations
- 860 F.2d 328
- 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 14453
- 1988 WL 111306
How courts have described this case
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- holding that, among other things, \testimony and physical evidence. . . [of] contraband\ justified the initiation of strip searches
- recognizing that strip searches that are “excessive, vindictive, harassing, or unrelated to any legitimate penological interest” may violate the Fourth Amendment
- holding that female guard’s presence during male inmate search was an isolated 8 incident that did not violate inmate’s constitutional rights
- recognizing that strip searches that are “excessive, vindictive, harassing, or unrelated to any legitimate penological interest” may violate the Fourth Amendment
- holding that taser guns were not per se unconstitutional in the prison context if “used to enforce compliance with [an order] that had a reasonable security purpose”
- holding that right 13 to bodily privacy was not violated because female officers did not “regularly or 14 frequently observe unclothed inmates without a legitimate reason for doing so”; 15 specifically, (1
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Judges: Fletcher, Wiggins, Noonan
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