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Doe v. Groody

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The 'Doe v. Groody lawsuit concerned a strip-search of a 10 year old girl and her mother despite the fact that neither were criminal suspects nor named in any search warrant. In applying for a search warrent, they requested the right to search whoever was in the house and where refused that request.

Majority opinion

The majority opinion for the Third Circuit found the search unconstitutional.

Alito's dissenting opinion

Judge Alito wrote a dissenting opinion saying that police officers did not violate the Constitution when they strip-searched the mother and her ten-year-old daughter.

Judge Chertoff’s majority opinion asserted that Judge Alito’s position would effectively nullify the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement and “transform the judicial officer into little more than the cliché rubber stamp.”

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