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Bull v. City and County of San Francisco, No. 05-17080 (9th Cir.) (539 F.3d 1193) (August 22, 2008) (Judge Sidney R. Thomas)

Here a divided panel held that the San Francisco’s Sheriff Department’s blanket policy of strip searching all pretrial detainees, solely because they were classified for housing in the general jail population, and without any reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, violated the arrestees’ clearly established constitutional rights. Accordingly, the majority affirmed the ...

 

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