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    Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches

    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.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    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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    Fading Trust in American Institutions
    1. 0:00President Obama Attacks the Republican Budget
    2. 6:58Fading Trust in American Institutions
    3. 44:17Supreme Court Approves Strip SearchesYou’re reading this
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