Mack v. Suffolk County’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]o require Plaintiff to prove that each individual search was unsupportable, as well as indiscriminate, would be unnecessary and unfair. Given that these women were routinely strip searched, the burden rests on Defendants to demonstrate that particular searches were reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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