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Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News November, 1991, page 4
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Strip Searches, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Qualified Immunity. Location: California.
A female California state prisoner was ordered to submit to a strip search by male prison guards. She refused to be strip searched and was Tasered. She filed suit under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth amendments.

The District Court applied an Eighth Amendment analysis and concluded the Fourth Amendment was ...

 

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