Legal Opinion
Kennedy v. Los Angeles Police Department
District Court, C.D. California
Decided August 14, 1987No. CV 83-7050-SVWPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WILSON, District Judge.
In this opinion, the court discusses the constitutionality of a policy of the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) that mandates a visual body cavity search for every pretrial detainee arrested on any felony charge. 1 This issue arises in the following context: the plaintiff, Karen Kennedy, was arrested for grand theft and subjected to a body cavity search. The plaintiff sued for a violation of her civil rights. At trial, a jury found that the plaintiff had been arrested without probable cause and that the body cavity search violated her…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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