 In "Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders" (2010), Hardiman held that a jail policy of strip-searching everyone who is arrested does not violate the prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures in the Fourth Amendment.The Supreme Court affirmed this decision in 2012.In "Barkes v. First Correctional Medical, Inc." (2014), Hardiman dissented from a ruling that two Delaware prison officials could be sued for failing to provide adequate suicide prevention protocols after a mentally ill inmate committed suicide.