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WOOD v. CLEMONS

No. 96-1078.

89 F.3d 922 (1996)

Sharon WOOD et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. James R. CLEMONS et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Whitman, with whom Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger was on brief, Portland, ME, for appellants.

Diane Sleek, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General of Maine, was on brief, Augusta, ME, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Officers at a Maine prison received a tip that a female inmate's teenage children would be smuggling drugs into the prison in her infant granddaughter's booties. The superintendent of the prison, erroneously believing that the tip had been confirmed by two unconnected confidential informants, authorized a strip search of the visitors. In actuality, the tip had originated from a single anonymous and uncorroborated source. The strip search of the...

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