side of the split, dissenting from the denial of rehearing of bank by that court, chief judge alex kosinski got to the heart of the matter. there's something creepy and un-american about such behavior. he wrote -- to those of us who have lived under a total tear queen regame. there's a meaning of deja vu. again at issue in florence, burlington county. florence concerned the practice in new jersey county jails of subjecting all arrestees to strip searches before admitting them to a jail's general inmate quarters. florence was arrested for failure to pay a fine, wrongly as it turned out, he had, in fact, paid what was due. transferred from one jail to another. he was strip searched twice. and after all charges against him were dropped, florence sued the jails in which the searches youred. seeking damages under section 1983. by the time florence's case reached the supreme court, eight courts of appeals had already held strip searches of persons arrested for minor offenses were impermissible absent reason to suspect that the person arrested was concealing contraband. in florence, the third circ

chief judge alex kosinski got to the heart of the matter. he said there is something creepy and american about such behavior. -- un-american about such behavior. for those of us who have lived under a totalitarian regime, there is an eerie feeling of deja vu. the meaning of the fourth amendment was again in issue florence vs burlington county. this concern the practice in new jersey jails of subjecting all arrestees to strip searches before admitting them into the jails. florence was arrested for not paying a fine -- it turns said he had paid it. he was stripped searched twice. after all charges against him were dropped, florence sued the jails in which searches occurred, seeking damages under section 1983. by the time the case reached the supreme court, a court of appeals had held that strip searches of persons arrested for minor offenses were permit -- in permissible absent reason to suspect the person arrested was carrying contraband. in florence, the third circuit disagreed and of how the practice. justice kennedy, writing for the court,