Legal Opinion
Mary Beth G. v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 29, 1983No. Nos. 82-1894, 82-1920, 82-2605, 83-1618 and 83-2203PublishedCited by 322 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The four plaintiffs-appellees in these consolidated cases are all women who were arrested for misdemeanor offenses and strip searched by matrons in lockups maintained by the City of Chicago while awaiting the arrival of bail money. The strip searches were conducted in accordance with a policy of the City that existed from 1952 to 1980. That policy required a strip search and a visual inspection of the body cavities of all women arrested and detained in the City lockups, regardless of the charges against the women and without regard to whether the arresting…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- Delaware v. ProuseSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by322 opinions
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