Legal Opinion
James Washington, Jr v. John Hively
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2012No. 12-1657PublishedCited by 231 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff was a pretrial detainee in a county jail in Wisconsin in April 2008 when he was subjected to a pat down and strip search by the defendant, a guard at the jail. He claims in this civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that while patting him down the guard spent five to seven seconds gratuitously fondling the plaintiffs testicles and penis through the plaintiffs clothing and then while strip searching him fondled his nude testicles for two or three seconds, contrary to jail policy which forbids touching the inmate in the course of a strip search, and again…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Hendrickson v. CooperCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
- Tyrone Calhoun v. George E. DetellaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2003
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3Cited by231 opinions
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- Kristin Sconiers v. FNU LockhartCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
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