DUGAS v. JEFFERSON COUNTY

No. 1:95-CV-437.

931 F.Supp. 1315 (1996)

Elizabeth DUGAS v. JEFFERSON COUNTY et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

June 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Stone, Stone & Stone, Beaumont, TX, Donald E. Sample, Sample and Sample, Beaumont, TX, for Elizabeth Dugas.

John G. Bissell, Strong Pipkin Nelson & Bissell, Beaumont, TX, for Carl R. Griffith, Eric R. Payne, Jefferson County, Texas.


MEMORANDUM ORDER OVERRULING DEFENDANT'S OBJECTIONS AND ADOPTING THE REPORT OF THE UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

HEARTFIELD, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action involving the strip search of a female state misdemeanor defendant at the Jefferson County Jail. Defendants Jefferson County and Eric Payne, the sheriff's deputy who ordered the strip search, admit that the search violated plaintiff's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable...

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