Mills v. City of Barbourville.

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Mills v. City of Barbourville, 389 F.3d 568 (6th Cir. 2004). An arrestee brought a [section] 1983 action claiming that her constitutional rights were violated when a male jailer saw her bare chest during a search at the jail after her arrest. The district court dismissed some of the defendants and granted summary judgment in favor of the remaining defendants, and the arrestee appealed. The appeals court affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. The appeals court held that the fact that a male jail employee may have seen the arrestee's bare breasts accidentally as he...