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Shain v. Ellison, No. CV 96-3774 (E.D.N.Y.) (53 F.Supp.2d 564) (June 1, 1999) (Judge Leonard D. Wexler)

Case held that county could not claim qualified immunity in action charging that general strip searches of detainees violated the Fourth Amendment in the absence of reasonable suspicion that detainees were concealing contraband.

In this case a detainee at the Nassau County Correctional Facility challenged the policy of requiring strip ...

 

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