United States Second Circuit

For purposes of qualified immunity, it was clearly established in July 1995 that corrections officers in a local correctional facility could not perform a strip search on an individual arraigned on misdemeanor charges unless the officers had reasonable suspicion that the individual possessed contraband or weapons.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2000
• Decided 10/19/2001
• Published 10/19/2001

Judges

• POOLER, Circuit Judge:, Before: CABRANES, POOLER, KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Herbst & Greenwald, LLP (Robert L. Herbst and Gayle Pollack of counsel), New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Putative Class Members in Augustin v. Jablonsky., Emery Cuti Brinckerhoff & Abady PC (Richard D. Emery, Matthew D. Brinckerhoff, John R. Cuti, and Nina Morrison, of counsel), New York, N.Y. for Amici Curiae 65,000 Class Members in Tyson v. City of New York and Plaintiffs in O'Day v. Nassau County., Daniel L. Greenberg, Sarah Kerr, John Boston, Laura Johnson, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Legal Aid Society., Michael D. Hess, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Larry A. Sonnenshein and Kathleen Alberton of counsel), New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae New York City Department of Correction.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Herbst,Herbst & Greenwald, LLP (Gayle Pollack, on the brief), New York, NY;  Ray E. Shain, pro se, Williston Park, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant., Paul F. Millus, Snitow & Cunningham, LLP (Robert P. Devlin, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendants-Apellants-Cross-Appellees County of Nassau and Joseph Jablonsky., Carol Fischer, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Robert E. Forte, Deputy Solicitor General, and Michael S. Belohlavek, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), New York, NY, for Cross-Appellee Judge James H. Madden.