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United States: Philadelphia to Pay $5.9 Million to Settle Strip-Search Claims.
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November 9, 2009
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A federal judge has approved a $5.9 million settlement in the civil rights suit challenging Philadelphia's blanket policy of strip-searching every person admitted into the city's prison system.
In her 52-page opinion in Boone v. Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin also awarded attorney fees of more than $1.7 million -- 30 percent of the settlement fund -- to the team of plaintiffs lawyers from six firms, led by Daniel C. Levin of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman.
McLaughlin noted that the plaintiffs team had logged ...
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