Timeline on Nassau's strip search case
1999: Federal judge rules unconstitutional the Nassau County jail's policy of strip-searching people arrested for misdemeanors and other minor infractions.
2005: County settles lawsuit seeking damages by 10 individuals who were strip-searched, paying $35,000 to each.
2007: Federal appeals court rules that county is liable for damages to 17,700 people who were strip-searched between 1996...
