{"id":22477,"date":"2016-06-08T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22477"},"modified":"2016-06-08T07:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T12:54:41","slug":"ca4-prison-forced-surgery-to-remove-marbles-from-penis-plausibly-states-a-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22477","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Prison forced surgery to remove marbles as implants from penis &#8220;plausibly&#8221; states a claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forced prison surgery to have marbles as sexually enhancing implants removed from an inmate&#8217;s penis stated a plausible Fourth Amendment claim. He didn\u2019t ask for it, and it is, after all, a private area of his body. \u201cThe fact that the search occurred in a hospital does not trump the overwhelming evidence that the search was unreasonable. Accordingly, we reverse the district court&#8217;s dismissal of King&#8217;s claim and hold that he pleaded sufficient facts to establish a Fourth Amendment claim plausibly entitling him to relief.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinion.pdf\/156382.P.pdf\">King v. Rubenstein<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 10276 (4th Cir. June 7, 2016). [Since this case is so unique, why no qualified immunity as a matter of law?]<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff did not sufficiently allege any possible violation of his Fourth Amendment rights in a prison search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/153988np.pdf\">Hodges v. Mankey<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 10011 (3d Cir. June 2, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced prison surgery to have marbles as sexually enhancing implants removed from an inmate&#8217;s penis stated a plausible Fourth Amendment claim. He didn\u2019t ask for it, and it is, after all, a private area of his body. \u201cThe fact that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22477"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}