Legal Opinion

Garvey v. MacDonald

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided October 22, 2009No. Civil Action 07-30049-KPNPublished

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER WITH REGARD TO CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT (Document Nos. 31 and 37)

NEIMAN, United States Magistrate Judge.

Presently before the court are cross-motions for summary judgment in this class action “strip search” case brought by Gregory Garvey (“Garvey”) and other similarly-situated pre-arraignment detainees (“Plaintiffs”) at the now-closed Franklin County Jail (“FCJ”) in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The class this court certified on April 15, 2008, consists of the following:

All people strip searched without individualized suspicion on or after March 28, 2004, and before…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Pearson v. CallahanSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  3. Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  4. Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. Hunter v. BryantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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