WAY v. COUNTY OF VENTURA

No. 04-55457.

445 F.3d 1157 (2006)

Noelle WAY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COUNTY OF VENTURA; Robert Brooks; Karen Hanson, Defendants-Appellants, and Robert Ortiez, Ventura Police Officer, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 20, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan E. Wisotsky and Jeffrey Held, Law Offices of Alan E. Wisotsky, Oxnard, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Earnest C.S. Bell, Law Offices of Earnest C.S. Bell, Ventura, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before RYMER and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD C. REED, JR., District Judge.


RYMER, Circuit Judge.

We must decide whether Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks and Deputy Karen Hanson are entitled to qualified immunity for conducting a strip search with a visual cavity inspection of Noelle Way during the booking process at a pre-trial detention facility on a misdemeanor charge of being under the influence of cocaine or methamphetamine in violation of California Health & Safety Code § 11550(a). This requires us first to decide whether...

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