U.S. District Court: STRIP SEARCH.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Mason v. Village of Babylon, New York, 124 F.Supp.2d 807 (E.D.N.Y. 2000). An arrestee who was taken into custody based on a traffic warrant that was later determined to have been recalled, filed an action under [sections] 1983 alleging false arrest and illegal search. The district court found that a no-contact partial strip search, incident to arrest violated the Fourth Amendment because neither the nature of the offense nor the circumstances of arrest raised any suspicion that would justify such an intrusion. The court noted that...