United States Tenth Circuit

In a civil rights action arising from circumstances in which plaintiff was strip searched pursuant to an incorrect arrest warrant, a decision rejecting police officer's claim to qualified-immunity defense on a strip-search claim is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff demonstrated that her constitutional rights were violated by the strip search under the circumstances; and 2) those rights were clearly established at the time of the search.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/29/2008
• Published 04/30/2008

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, LUCERO, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy MacDonald (Andrew S. Kelley, on the brief), Arnold & Porter, L.L.P., Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Writer Mott, Assistant County Attorney (Ellen G. Wakeman, Acting County Attorney and Patricia W. Gilbert, Assistant County Attorney, on the briefs), Jefferson County Attorney's Office, Golden, CO, for Defendant-Appellant.