Essex County Correctional Facility and Essex County Sheriff’s Department
Respondents
Carter G. Phillips, Counsel of Record The Essex County Correctional Facility and the Essex County Sheriff’s Department were Albert W. Florence’s lawsuit alleging violations of his Fourth Amendment rights due to suspicionless strip searches. Carter G. Phillips is the managing partner of the Washington, D.C., office of the law firm Sidley Austin, where he specializes in appellate law. The following is excerpted from the Brief for the Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 19, 2011. The Court can affirm the Third Circuit’s judgment that Essex’s intake searches are constitutional on several distinct grounds. The Fourth…
