CORDOVA v. CHONKO

Civ. No. C 69-293.

315 F.Supp. 953 (1970)

Colin R. CORDOVA, a minor, 14 years of age, by and through Carlos Cordova, his father and next friend, 711 Findlay Street, Perrysburg, Ohio, Plaintiff, v. Edward W. CHONKO, as Principal of Perrysburg High School, and Robert M. Pierson, as Superintendent of Perrysburg Public Schools, and James M. Fraser, as President of the Perrysburg Exempted Village Board of Education, and John Landwehr, as a member of the Perrysburg Exempted Village Board of Education, and David H. Wilson, Jr., as a member of the Perrysburg Exempted Village Board of Education, and Richard Brittan, as a member of the Perrysburg Exempted Village Board of Education, and George J. Williams, as a member of the Perrysburg Exempted Village Board of Education, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Ohio, W. D.

July 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harland M. Britz, Toledo, Ohio, for plaintiff.

Donald DeCessna, Perrysburg, Ohio, for defendants.


OPINION

DON J. YOUNG, District Judge.

This is another "long hair" case. The plaintiff is a fourteen year old boy. The defendant school authorities and the boy's parents appear from the evidence to be functioning at about the same level of maturity. This simplifies the application of the old maxim "All parties stand equal before the law."

Although the facts in the case are relatively simple, the legal problems are of great difficulty and complexity...

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