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Thompson v. City of Los Angeles

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Overruled in part
Court
Ninth Circuit
Citation
885 F.2d 1439
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
68 of 68
Citing cases (total)
68
Treatment dates
2010
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Thompson v. City of Los Angeles was overruled in part. In Bull v. City and County of San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc overruled Thompson's rule on blanket strip searches of arrestees entering the general jail population.
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Later courts continue to apply Thompson's separate holdings on municipal policy or custom and state entities. All 68 flagged citations have been read; the confirmed treatment is listed below. Source note: The 2008 panel opinions in Bull were vacated when the Ninth Circuit took the case en banc. The entry below cites the operative 2010 en banc opinion; the second archive copy of that opinion was screened but does not duplicate the entry.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

68 later cases cite Thompson v. City of Los Angeles; 68 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Ninth Circuit en banc overruled Thompson's strip search rule for arrestees entering the general jail population.

    Bull v. City and County of San Francisco · Ninth Circuit (en banc) · filed

    Plaintiffs argue this conclusion is inconsistent with our earlier decisions in Thompson v. City of Los Angeles, 885 F.2d 1439 (9th Cir.1989), and Giles v. Ackerman, 746 F.2d 614 (9th Cir.1984) (per curiam), which held that a blanket policy of strip searching arrestees was per se unconstitutional, even if the arrestees were to be transferred into the general population. In revisiting these opinions today, we conclude they failed to give due weight to the principles emphasized in Bell and reiterated in Turner. ... We therefore overrule our own panel opinions in Thompson and Giles.
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