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SOMERS v. THURMAN

No. 96-55534.

109 F.3d 614 (1997)

Keith SOMERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Otis THURMAN, Warden; John Ratelle, Warden; C. Lovvorn; H. Castango; J. Volletti; Jesse Miles; unknown Martinez; unk. Booke; unk. Porter; unk. Brown, Defendants, and Brenda Cash; unk. Walls; unk. Shabazz; unk. Wheat; unk. Gomez; unk. Ferguson; unk. Johnson; unk. Rivera, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1997.

As Amended May 28, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig S. Nelson, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for the defendants-appellants.

James A. Frieden, Santa Monica, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before D.W. NELSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and BRYAN, District Judge.

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

I. OVERVIEW

Female prison guards (collectively, "Officials") appeal a district court order denying them qualified immunity in a male prisoner's civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. California state prisoner Keith Somers sued the Officials and their supervisors for $1,000,000 in damages, alleging that visual body cavity searches performed by the female Officials, as...

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