United States Ninth Circuit

An order denying qualified immunity in an 42 U.S.C. section 1983 class action suit is affirmed where, under the circumstances of this case, San Francisco's blanket policy of strip searching without reasonable suspicion of all individuals arrested and classified for housing in the general jail population violated the arrestees' clearly established constitutional rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/26/2009
• Decided 08/22/2008
• Published 08/22/2008

Judges

• Before ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, PAMELA ANN RYMER, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, SUSAN P. GRABER, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RONALD M. GOULD, MARSHA S. BERZON, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, SANDRA S. IKUTA, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis J. Herrera and Danny Chou, City Attorneys; Joanne Hoeper, Chief Trial Attorney; and David B. Newdorf (argued) and Robert A. Bonta, Deputy City Attorneys, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark E. Merin and Cathleen A. Williams, Law Office of Mark E. Merin (argued); and Andrew Charles Schwartz (argued) and Thomas A. Seaton, Casper, Meadows, Schwartz & Cook, for the appellees.