United States Fourth Circuit

A visual body cavity search of a prison employee's person does not violate her Fourth Amendment rights, and may be conducted by prison authorities when they possess a reasonable and individualized suspicion that an employee is hiding contraband on his or her person.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2000
• Decided 04/13/2001
• Published 04/13/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WILKINS and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Vance Earle Drawdy, Haynsworth, Baldwin, Johnson & Greaves, L.L.C., Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant. James Lewis Cromer, Cromer & Mabry, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Scott Timothy Justice, Haynsworth, Baldwin, Johnson & Greaves, L.L.C., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.  Edward C. Boggs, Cromer & Mabry, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.