United States Ninth Circuit

Granted a pretrial detainee a new trial on her claims that she had been subjected to unlawful conditions of confinement at a detention facility. According to the detainee, the trial judge should not have instructed the jury to give deference to jail officials in deciding her claims alleging unconstitutional conditions of confinement and humiliating and invasive strip searches. On appeal the Ninth Circuit agreed that the jury instruction was improper, and held that she was entitled to a new trial on her Section 1983 civil rights claims.

Appellate Information

• Published 2018/07/16

Judges

• Wardlaw

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel