BYKOFSKY v. BOROUGH OF MIDDLETOWN

Civ. No. 75-74.

401 F.Supp. 1242 (1975)

Jo-Ann BYKOFSKY, on her own behalf and on the behalf of her son, a minor, Shaw Bykofsky, as his guardian, Plaintiffs, v. The BOROUGH OF MIDDLETOWN et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

August 22, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew F. Schneider, Middletown, Pa., for plaintiffs.

William M. Young, Jr., James H. Boser, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.


SHERIDAN, Chief Judge.

This is the first federal case to adjudicate the constitutionality of a nocturnal juvenile curfew ordinance. Despite the widespread prevalence of juvenile curfew ordinances, there is a surprising paucity of legal authority dealing with the validity of such enactments, there being no federal cases and relatively few state cases.1

Plaintiff, Jo-Ann Bykofsky, on...

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