Legal Opinion
Somers v. Thurman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 25, 1997No. 96-55534PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
I. OVERVIEW
Female prison guards (collectively, “Officials”) appeal a district court order denying them qualified immunity in a male prisoner’s civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. California state prisoner *616Keith Somers sued the Officials and their supervisors for $1,000,000 in damages, alleging that visual body cavity searches performed by the female Officials, as well as being watched by them while showering naked, violated his constitutional rights under both the Fourth and the Eighth Amendments. In addition, Somers alleged that the Officials…
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