COLE v. SNOW

No. CA 77-1351-T.

586 F.Supp. 655 (1984)

Shirley COLE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Linwood SNOW, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Charles R. Capace, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Francis J. O'Rourke, Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton, Boston, Mass., for Snow, Higgins & Plymouth County.

Paul Sullivan, Scituate, Mass., for Snow & Higgins.

Alexander Gray, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for Hall.


OPINION

TAURO, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Ruth McCarthy Blackburn, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1981), seeking compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of her constitutional rights arising out of a strip search policy instituted at the Plymouth House of Corrections ("Plymouth").1 Pursuant to that policy, Ms. Blackburn was strip searched three times during April 1977, while attempting to visit...

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