Legal Opinion
Tardiff v. Knox County
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 9, 2004No. 04-1065, 04-1165PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Before us are orders certifying class actions in two jailhouse strip search cases. The two cases, arising before two different judges in the same court (Judges Carter and Hornby), are targeted at two different Maine counties (Knox and York). In each case, a named plaintiff seeks to represent others who (it is alleged) were improperly strip searched. Following certification of the classes, we allowed interlocutory appeals and now affirm.
Over the last few decades, a changed popular sensibility has produced a series of decisions curtailing what was once an apparently routine…
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