Federal appeals court rules school nurse has qualified immunity in suit over medically motivated examination of student’s genitals
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (MI, OH, KY, TH) has ruled that a school nurse, who conducted a medically motivated visual examination of the vaginal area of a 6 year old student, was entitled to qualified immunity from a suit alleging the nurse’s examination constituted an unreasonable search in violation of the student’s Fourth Amendment rights, because the right was not clearly established.
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