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Ohio Catholic hospital resolves First Amendment dispute over ‘body cavity’ search

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An Ohio Catholic hospital has resolved a legal dispute in which it alleged that city authorities violated its constitutional rights in attempting to force it to perform a drug search on a patient.

Mercy Health, the city of Lorain, and Lorain County have reached “a fair and mutually satisfactory resolution of recent state and federal legal matters between them,” the three parties said this week, with the resolution coming after the hospital filed a lawsuit in January against the city.

The suit had alleged that police in August brought a “detainee” to the hospital’s emergency room and requested that doctors “perform a body cavity search” to determine if the suspect was in possession of drugs.

Doctors at the hospital refused, citing what they said was “an unjustifiably high risk of serious bodily injury or death” to the patient, specifically the risk that the search would release drugs into the patient’s system.

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