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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...

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