United States Ninth Circuit

In a civil rights action by a pretrial detainee claiming that he was subjected to a cross-gender strip search of his genital area, judgment for defendants is affirmed in part where the complaint's allegations failed to state an equal protection claim because they asserted only allegedly harmful treatment and mentioned nothing about disparate treatment, much less about the specific jail policy or gender classification in general. However, the judgment is reversed in part where the scope of the intrusion in this case far exceeded searches the court had previously sanctioned and weighed in favor of a finding of unreasonableness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/05/2011
• Published 01/05/2011

Judges

• Johnnie B. Rawlinson

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas B. Adler, Eileen D. GilBride