KO&L wins another class certification decision in a strip search case from a federal court in Bizzarro v Ocean County.
On June 9, 2009, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey granted a contested motion for class certification in Bizzarro v Ocean County, a strip search case in which KOL is one of the lead counsel. A copy of the decision is available here. In the decision, Judge Wolfson found that the plaintiffs’ claims that Ocean County conducted a blanket strip search policy of humiliatingly strip-searching all individuals who entered the Ocean County Jail and were placed in jail clothing, regardless of the crime upon which they are charged.
The class that the Court certified to proceed on a class-wide basis consists of:
All persons who had been placed into the custody of the Ocean County Jail after being charged with non-indictable offenses such as disorderly persons offenses, traffic infractions, and/or civil commitments and were strip searched upon their entry into the Ocean County Jail. The class period commences on November 28, 2005 and extends to December 28, 2007.
A copy of the second amended complaint in the case is available here.
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