Shelton R. Thomas v. Brian Owens

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• concluding that a jury could find a strip search unreasonable in part because it was conducted in an open-air parking lot while the plaintiff was pushed up against an oily tractor-trailer
• concluding that a jury could find a search unreasonable in part because the officer . touched the inside of the suspect’s vagina during a search despite having little reason to believe the suspect had drugs inside her genitals
• affirming district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a police officer who conducted a strip search on a female suspect in view of a male officer, in an unsanitary parking lot, while calling her insulting names
• applying Bell to a claim that a strip search was unreasonable
• not excessive force when shoved against a trailer to be handcuffed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).