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ELLIOTT v. LYNN

No. 92-3759.

38 F.3d 188 (1994)

Keith David ELLIOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Bruce N. LYNN, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Corrections, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 17, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paula Cobb, Cobb and Cobb, Baton Rouge, LA, for appellant.

Andre' Castaing, Asst. Atty. Gen., Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, for appellee.

Before GARWOOD, JOLLY and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from an institution-wide "shakedown" of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, ordered by the defendant Bruce N. Lynn, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, because of an increasing number of murders, suicides, stabbings, and cuttings among the inmate population. Under Lynn's order, the plaintiff, Keith David Elliott, along with all other prisoners, submitted to a visual body cavity search at the prison...

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