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Physical Injury Rule Doesn't Bar Strip Search Suit

Vacating dismissal by the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a prisoner adequately pleaded an Eighth Amendment violation in a prison strip-search and that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) does not bar suit where the only injuries alleged are psychological.


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