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SALA v. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

No. 1056. Docket 79-7009.

604 F.2d 207 (1979)

Diane SALA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, Philip F. Corso, Sheriff of the County of Suffolk, and Loraine Weeks, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett E. Aron, West Hempstead, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward J. Hart, Merrick, N. Y. (Curtis, Hart & Zaklukiewicz, Merrick, N. Y., Wade Thomas Dempsey, Merrick, N. Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, SMITH and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In this case an unfortunate series of circumstances and the mechanical application of an ill-considered county policy, since abandoned, led to an embarrassing strip search of a woman. Plaintiff Diane Sala had been accused by an individual of harassment, a minor violation in New York's hierarchy of offenses against the public weal, punishable by no more than fifteen days in jail. The summons...

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