A federal judge approved a $5.9 million settlement in a suit challenging Philadelphia's policy of strip-searching every person admitted into its prison system. As part of the settlement, the city will replace strip searches with non-invasive metal detectors and ion scanners -- a high-tech solution that allowed the lawyers to avoid litigating a constitutional question that has been a vexing one for courts. Eight of the 12 federal circuits have held that a policy to strip search all pretrial detainees is unconstitutional.
November 09, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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A federal judge has approved a $5.9 million settlement in the civil rights suit challenging Philadelphia’s blanket policy of strip-searching every person admitted into the city’s prison system.
In her 52-page opinion in Boone v. Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin also awarded attorney fees of more than $1.7 million — 30 percent of the settlement fund — to the team of plaintiffs lawyers from six firms, led by Daniel C. Levin of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman.
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