Two of the women in the JFK strip search spree of 2011 are following Shosana Hebshi's lead. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/...RcjiAW66SkK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Queens As many likely recall, there was a third woman who complained but that TSA ignored. The story from that period.
Great. sue their butts off. Take their lie act to a courtroom where a jury can see the accusers and the accused and make their own conclusions. Maybe we'll get lucky and the perps' low IQ *sses will be jailed for perjury.
Here are the cases from Justia.com: Sherman v. United States of America Plaintiff: Ruth M. Sherman Defendant: United States of America Case Number: 1:2013cv00847 Filed: February 15, 2013 Court: New York Eastern District Court Office: Brooklyn Office Presiding Judge: Edward R. Korman Referring Judge: Roanne L. Mann Nature of Suit: Torts - Injury - Other Personal Injury Cause: 28:1343 Violation of Civil Rights Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff Zimmerman v. United States of America Plaintiff: Lenore Zimmerman Defendant: United States of America Case Number: 1:2013cv00846 Filed: February 15, 2013 Court: New York Eastern District Court Office: Brooklyn Office jr,: Ramon E. Reyes Presiding Judge: Carol Bagley Amon Nature of Suit: Torts - Injury - Other Personal Injury Cause: 28:1343 Violation of Civil Rights Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff Justia's "BlawgSearch" of legal blogs also turns up some posts about Lenore Zimmerman and Ruth Sherman: But For Video: Old Lady Knickers Edition 6 Dec 2011, 4:31 am by SHG Would Lenore Zimmerman lie? Probably not. When she says that she was strip searched at JFK airport by two TSA agents, who required her to remove her pants and bloomers, it's unimaginable that she was making it up. But there's a problem. There's no video of it happening. She was taken to a private room, where no one else could see what happened. If there is a video of what happened inside the room, it hasn't been made public. Therefore, it never happened. That's the TSA's position, and they're [read post] Simple Justice - http://blog.simplejustice.us Reuters: TSA searches a colostomy bag of elderly woman 18 Jan 2012, 2:15 pm Reuters: TSA: Agents erred in search of elderly passengers: The Transportation Security Administration said its agents violated procedures by inspecting an elderly woman's colostomy bag screening another's back brace but denied claims the women were strip searched. The women, Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Florida, and Lenore Zimmerman, 85, of Long Beach, New York, complained they were strip searched by agents at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport during the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday [read post] FourthAmendment.com - http://fourthamendment.com/blog/index.php?blog=1
IANAL, but in my considered opinion, the fact that they took these women to a "private room" would indicate that they did so in violation of the "Administrative Search Doctrine" which states that an administrative search must be performed in "public view." Unless it was requested by the ladie's that were strip-searched, the TSOs had no business requiring them to go to a private room. NO ONE, BUT NO ONE, SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO GO INTO A PRIVATE ROOM FOR SCREENING. PERIOD. END OF DISCUSSION.
DeafBlonde, where is it written that an administrative search must be performed in public view? I can't find it but maybe I'm no searching in the right places.
I've seen that before, too, that administrative searches are to be done in public. I don't know if I can find it again, though -- the big problem I've found when reading about administrative search doctrine is that straightforward sources that you don't need a law degree to comprehend are not readily available on the internet.
