The city agreed to pay out $33 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for thousands of people who were wrongly subjected to humiliating strip-searches in area jails and in the case of two women, “forced to undergo gynecological exams” reports the AP. Most of the unconstitutional searches were done at Rikers Island and the Manhattan Detention Center and all of the plaintiffs in the case were arrested for non-felony crimes, but NOT convicted.
In an almost unanimous decision (8-1), the Supreme Court ruled that a public school violated a 13-year-old student’s 4th Amendment rights for executing a humiliating strip search with basically no evidence for something as silly as ibuprofen, better know by its street name: Advil. Well they didn’t find any and despite the court’s findings, the school officials involved in the illegal rights violating action will not be held liable. Justices also left a lot of ambiguity that doesn’t necessarily rule out future strip searches. |SCOTUSwiki|
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