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WATT v. CITY OF RICHARDSON POLICE DEPT.

No. 87-1302.

849 F.2d 195 (1988)

Lynda L. WATT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF RICHARDSON POLICE DEPARTMENT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 15, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Bradley Dickinson, Janetta S. Walls, M. Leigh Bartlett, Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

Douglas A. Larson, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GARWOOD and JONES, Circuit Judges, and BLACK, District Judge.

EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Lynda Watt was subjected to a strip search incident to her arrest for failure to license her dog in the City of Richardson, Texas. Understandably outraged by this incident, she filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and recovered damages against the city. The district court concluded that a portion of the city's policy governing the conduct of visual strip searches violated the fourth amendment on its face and...

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