Shirley Mello Rodriques v. Joseph Furtado

HILL, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellant brought a § 1983 action seeking damages for deprivation of her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches resulting from a search of her vagina conducted pursuant to a warrant. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the appellees’ motions for summary judgment and this appeal was brought, 771 F.Supp. 1245.

We rule that (1) the search of appellant’s vagina was not unreasonable by its very nature; (2) appellee Furtado is entitled to the defense of qualified immunity; (3) appellant has no actionable § 1983…