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McBean v. City of New York

1:02-cv-05426 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: July 15, 2002

Closed Date: Nov. 9, 2010

On July 15, 2002, inmates of New York City jails filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of New York and jail officials in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the Court in a series of amended complaints for declaratory and injunctive relief, as well as damages, alleging that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by subjecting them to strip searches in the absence of re…
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Pritchard v. County of Erie

1:04-cv-00534 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Filed Date: July 21, 2004

Closed Date: Feb. 22, 2018

On October 31, 2003, three plaintiffs represented by private attorneys with law firms in New York and Washington, D.C., filed this class action civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. They alleged that the Erie County Sheriff's Department had an unconstitutional blanket policy and/or practice of strip searching all individuals who entered either the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC) or the Erie County Correctional Facili…
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McDonald v. Franklin County

2:13-cv-00503 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 3, 2013

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenging Franklin County’s policy of strip-searching individuals charged with low-level misdemeanor offenses and photographing their tattoos. The plaintiff, a resident of Franklin County, was arrested for disorderly conduct in 2012 and transported to the Franklin County Correction Center II (“Jackson Pike” facility). She was required to strip in the presence of other detained people and a male correctional officer who then photographed tattoos near her genitals. She was releas…
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Hoffman v. City of Chicago

1:82-cv-04984 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 1982

Closed Date: Jan. 20, 1984

This is one of a number of cases challenging the City of Chicago's blanket policy to strip search all female arrestees regardless of the charges or the likelihood that they are concealing contraband.On March 1, 1979, three women who had been subjected to strip and cavity searches in accordance with the policy filed a class action lawsuit against the City. That case is in this Chearinghouse as Jane Does v. City of Chicago. It resulted in a settlement in which the City of Chicago was permanently …
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Barnes v. District of Columbia

1:06-cv-00315 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2006

On February 23, 2006, four men incarcerated at the District of Columbia Jail filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 class action suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs claimed that D.C. Jail officials violated their Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendment rights in detaining them beyond their release dates and violated their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights for conducting blanket strip searches.The Barnes case followed a nearly identical class action lawsuit Bynum v. District…
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Tikalski v. City of Chicago

1:78-03260 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 1978

Closed Date: March 6, 1984

This is one of a number of cases challenging the City of Chicago's blanket policy to strip search all female arrestees regardless of the charges or the likelihood that they are concealing contraband.On March 1, 1979, three women who had been subjected to strip and cavity searches in accordance with the policy filed a class action lawsuit against the City. That case is in this Chearinghouse as Jane Does v. City of Chicago. It resulted in a settlement in which the City of Chicago was permanently …
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Jane Does v. City of Chicago

1:79-00789 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 1, 1979

Closed Date: Sept. 24, 1984

Three women who had been subjected to strip and cavity searches in accordance with a blanket policy to strip search all female arrestees regardless of the charges or the likelihood that they are concealing contraband were part of a class action to challenge the constitutionality of the policy, filed on March 1, 1979. Jane Does v. City of Chicago, No. 79 C 789 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 12, 1982) That case resulted in a settlement in which the City of Chicago was permanently enjoined from instituting strip…
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Ross v. Gossett

3:15-cv-00309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 19, 2015

Case Ongoing

On March 19, 2015, an Illinois prisoner filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against numerous members of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) tactical team “Orange Crush,” the wardens at Illinois River, Menard, Big Muddy River, and Lawrence Correctional Centers, and other IDOC officials. The plaintiff, represented by Loevy & Loevy and the Uptown People's Law Center, sought injunctive reli…
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Foster v. City of Oakland

3:05-cv-03110 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 1, 2005

Closed Date: April 18, 2015

On August 1, 2005, a group of men, who claimed they were wrongfully searched, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the City of Oakland, the Oakland Chief of Police, and Oakland police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, alleged that the defendants violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights through a policy and practice of performing strip searches and body-cavity searches in pu…
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Yourke v. City & County of San Francisco

3:03-cv-03105 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 2, 2003

Closed Date: May 25, 2012

On July 2, 2003, an individual action was filed against the City and County of San Francisco pro se by an individual who was allegedly falsely arrested and subjected to a strip search after being transported to the county jail under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The case was brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and, after being reassigned twice, was presided over by Judge Charles Breyer. The plaintiff claimed that the false arrest and strip search were in violation of…