Strippers get paid for stripping and then get fucked by their attorney.
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
The city of Daytona Beach Shores has agreed to pay $195,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming four exotic dancers and two female bartenders were illegally strip-searched in 2009 during a raid on the bar where they worked.
U.S. District Judge Mary E. Scriven signed off on the settlement Wednesday.
New Smyrna Beach Most of the settlement will go to pay attorney fees, said New Smyrna Beach attorney Brett Hartley, who represented the six employees of Biggins Gentleman's Club. The dancers and bartenders will receive $5,000 each, he said.
The federal suit stemmed from a September 2009 raid at the club, conducted after undercover police officers had conducted controlled buys of drugs within the club, Hartley.
None of the six represented by Hartley were named in arrest warrants as a result of the investigation, he said.
One dancer was found to have a marijuana cigarette, but a misdemeanor drug-possession charge was later dropped, Hartley said.
An "all persons search warrant" was obtained and officers used it to search everyone inside the club, as well as vehicles parked outside, Hartley said.
The suit claimed that such a warrant is illegal and Scriven agreed, calling it "unconstitutionally overbroad."
The suit named the city and two officers – Trevor R. Wyman, who obtained the search warrant and Suzanne Williams, who conducted the strip searches.
Both officers tried to get the suits dismissed by claiming "qualified immunity," saying they were performing the duties of their jobs.
That was denied by Scriven. However, the settlement which was reached includes the suits against the individual officers, Hartley said.
The dancers, who performed in bikinis, and the bartenders, who work fully clothed, were taken into a room in the club and strip-searched in front of 20 male officers, Hartley said.
In a May order denying a motion to have case dismissed, Scriven noted that under state law strip-searches must be conducted by a person of the same sex and that "any observer shall be of the same gender as the arrested person."
Among those watching the strip-searches, according to court documents, was Stephan Dembinsky, the city's public safety director.
According to Scriven's motion, Dembinsky "admitted that the city lacked probable cause to search the individual plaintiffs and that the plaintiffs were searched simply because they were employees of the club present at the time the search warrant was executed.
"Even if he was unsure of the existence of probable cause, Chief Dembinsky knew that the manner and means of the execution of the strip searches was unlawful, yet, as final policymaker he concedes he did nothing," Scriven wrote.
Dembinsky could not be reached for comment.
U.S. District Judge Mary E. Scriven signed off on the settlement Wednesday.
New Smyrna Beach Most of the settlement will go to pay attorney fees, said New Smyrna Beach attorney Brett Hartley, who represented the six employees of Biggins Gentleman's Club. The dancers and bartenders will receive $5,000 each, he said.
The federal suit stemmed from a September 2009 raid at the club, conducted after undercover police officers had conducted controlled buys of drugs within the club, Hartley.
None of the six represented by Hartley were named in arrest warrants as a result of the investigation, he said.
One dancer was found to have a marijuana cigarette, but a misdemeanor drug-possession charge was later dropped, Hartley said.
An "all persons search warrant" was obtained and officers used it to search everyone inside the club, as well as vehicles parked outside, Hartley said.
The suit claimed that such a warrant is illegal and Scriven agreed, calling it "unconstitutionally overbroad."
The suit named the city and two officers – Trevor R. Wyman, who obtained the search warrant and Suzanne Williams, who conducted the strip searches.
Both officers tried to get the suits dismissed by claiming "qualified immunity," saying they were performing the duties of their jobs.
That was denied by Scriven. However, the settlement which was reached includes the suits against the individual officers, Hartley said.
The dancers, who performed in bikinis, and the bartenders, who work fully clothed, were taken into a room in the club and strip-searched in front of 20 male officers, Hartley said.
In a May order denying a motion to have case dismissed, Scriven noted that under state law strip-searches must be conducted by a person of the same sex and that "any observer shall be of the same gender as the arrested person."
Among those watching the strip-searches, according to court documents, was Stephan Dembinsky, the city's public safety director.
According to Scriven's motion, Dembinsky "admitted that the city lacked probable cause to search the individual plaintiffs and that the plaintiffs were searched simply because they were employees of the club present at the time the search warrant was executed.
"Even if he was unsure of the existence of probable cause, Chief Dembinsky knew that the manner and means of the execution of the strip searches was unlawful, yet, as final policymaker he concedes he did nothing," Scriven wrote.
Dembinsky could not be reached for comment.
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total of 30k for 6 people out of 195k and the lawyer gets 165k!
that's not fair at all!
you're right shadow, the attorney fucked them!
WTF? it doesn't take a law degree to know these searches were improperly conducted, most likely to humiliate the women in question. ever one of the officers who sat there, enjoyed the "show" and said nothing should have been named as parties in the lawsuit. they had to have known this was wrong and chose to do nothing to stop it.