Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches

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Albert Florence was arrested for failing to pay a traffic fine, stripped searched twice and held for we week until he demonstrated that the fine had already been paid. He sued county jail officials for humiliation and violation of privacy, but the US Supreme Court turned him down. Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean of the Law School at the University of California, Irvine.

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  • Erwin Chemerinsky - constitutional law professor and dean of UC Berkeley School of Law

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