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BLACKBURN v. SNOW

No. 84-1736.

771 F.2d 556 (1985)

Ruth BLACKBURN, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Linwood SNOW, et al., Defendants, Appellants,

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1985.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 20, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Sullivan and Francis J. O'Rourke, Boston, Mass., for defendants, appellants.

Jeffrey W. Kobrick, Boston, Mass., with whom Charles R. Capace, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BREYER and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges, and PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 20, 1985.

PETTINE, Senior District Judge.

At issue in this case is whether the federal Constitution permits a correctional institution to require that all men, women and children wishing to visit inmates at the institution submit to a strip search before doing so. Ruth Blackburn, the plaintiff-appellee in this case, was required to submit to such a search on three occasions in 1977 when she sought to visit her...

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