United States Eleventh Circuit

Customs agents who authorized a strip search of plaintiff after less invasive searches revealed nothing are not entitled to qualified immunity from a civil rights claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/20/2001

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and GEORGE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey D. Meyer, Franklin, Cardwell & Jones, Houston, TX, for Brent.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard A. Olderman,Lowell V. Sturgill, Barbara Herwig, Dept. of Justice, Civil Appellate Div., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.