Sarnicola v. County of Westchester

How courts have described this case

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• denying qualified immunity where “[a]ny rational jury would find that the [defendant officer’s] order, which overtly violated written [c]ounty policy, was so flawed that no reasonable officer would have made a similar choice” (quotation marks omitted)
• “[N]o court has ever held that being arrested for a narcotics-related crime automatically gives rise to reasonable suspicion that drugs are being carried in an arrestee’s body cavities, so as to justify a strip search or visual body cavity inspection.”
• “[A]utomatic justification for strip searches based on an arrest for a drug-related crime would be inconsistent with the legal concept of reasonable suspicion based on the totality of the circumstances . . . .” (citing United States v. Arvizu, 534 U.S. 266, 266 (2002))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).