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HICKS v. MOORE

No. 03-13686.

422 F.3d 1246 (2005)

Janet M. HICKS, a.k.a. Janet M. Bryant, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Richard MOORE, Individually and in his Official Capacity as the Sheriff of Habersham County, Michael Long, Brian Ausburn, Habersham County, Georgia, Jennie Clouatre, Joshua Highfill, John Taylor, Russell Gosnell, Defendants-Appellants, Jane Doe, Individually, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 31, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry Eugene Williams, Terry E. Williams & Associates, Lawrenceville, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

J. Matthew Maguire, Jr., Balch & Bingham, LLP, Scott Dewitt Delius, Delius Law Firm, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Hicks.

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, HULL, Circuit Judge, and EDENFIELD, District Judge.

EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:

This civil action for damages is, among other things, about a county jail's practice of strip searching all detainees who were to be placed in the general jail population — regardless of whether reasonable suspicion existed for the search of a particular pretrial detainee. Because we are overcome by this Circuit's precedent, we must agree with the district court that such a general practice, for now at least, is an unlawful basis for...

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