Legal Opinion
Rodriques v. Furtado
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 12, 1991PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, C.J.
On August 20, 1986, Joseph Furtado, a police officer for the city of Taunton (city), submitted an affidavit in support of a request for a warrant to search the plaintiff’s vagina. The warrant was issued by an assistant clerk-magistrate of the Taunton Division of the District Court Department. A few hours later, the warrant was executed by Dr. Philip M. Falkoff, a physician at Morton Hospital (hospital) in Taunton. The plaintiff brought this action in Superior Court alleging that Furtado, the city, Dr. Falkoff, and the hospital interfered with her constitutional right under art. 14 of the…
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- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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