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Legal Citation: 468 U.S. 517 (1984)

Petitioner
Ted S. Hudson

Respondent
Russel Thomas Palmer, Jr.

Petitioner's Claim
Privacy rights and protection against unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment cannot be extended to prison inmates. Such expectations are inconsistent with effective prison administration in correctional centers.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
William G. Broaddus

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Deborah C. Wyatt

Justices for the Court
Warren E. Burger (writing for the Court), Sandra Day O'Connor, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William H. Rehnquist, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
3 July 1984