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"Cross-sex strip searches ruled unconstitutional"

"Cross-sex strip searches ruled unconstitutional": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A female jail guard's strip search of a male inmate was a 'humiliating event' that violated his rights, a divided federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Wednesday. Such searches of a prisoner by a guard of the opposite sex are unconstitutional except in an emergency, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 6-5 decision."

You can access yesterday's en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

My earlier coverage of the original three-judge panel's ruling in the case can be accessed here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).