Legal Opinion

Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's Department

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided May 18, 2009No. 07-16640PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by Judge IKUTA; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge FERNANDEZ.

IKUTA, Circuit Judge:

Charles Byrd, a former pretrial detainee in the minimum-security Durango Jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 against Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio in his personal and official capacities, Kathleen O’Connell, a former cadet at the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office Training Academy, and Captain Austin Peterson, O’Connell’s supervisor.1 Byrd contends that a search of his housing unit, during which a partial strip search and pat down of his groin…

2Cases cited44 opinions

  1. Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. Kentucky v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  3. Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
  2. Brown v. ShortDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2010
  3. Byrd v. Maricopa County Sheriff's DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
  4. Gordon v. City of Moreno ValleyDistrict Court, C.D. California · 2009
  5. (PC) Christopher Lipsey v. Edmund Brown, JrDistrict Court, E.D. California · 2020

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