No. 18-1172

Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-03-11
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search
Latest Conference: 2019-05-09
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the court below erroneously held that the physical delousing of all detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse, whereby delousing solution was sprayed onto the genitals and anus of naked pre-trial detainees with a pressurized spray canister, was constitutional under the Fourth Amendment given reasonable de minimis alternatives to this procedure, including self-application of the solution.

Whether the court below erroneously held that routine group strip searches and physical delousing of all detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse, whereby detainees were strip searched and deloused in groups of three, were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment given reasonable de minimis alternatives to this procedure, including the utilization of privacy partitions recommended by state regulators.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the physical delousing and group strip searches of detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment, given reasonable alternatives

Docket Entries

2019-05-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/9/2019.
2019-04-09
Brief of respondent City of Cleveland, Ohio in opposition filed.
2019-03-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 10, 2019)

Attorneys

City of Cleveland
Stephen William FunkRoetzel & Andress, Respondent
Tynisa Williams
Elmer Robert Keach IIILaw Offices of Elmer Robert Keach, III PC, Petitioner