PICHA v. WIELGOS

No. 74 C 278.

410 F.Supp. 1214 (1976)

Renee PICHA, by her next friend Christine Picha, Plaintiff, v. Raymond WIELGOS, Principal of Dirksen Junior High School District No. 149, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

March 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Kandaras, Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation, Inc., Patrick A. Keenan, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Mitchell J. Overgaard, Haffner, Grow, Overgaard & Berghoff, Chicago, Ill., for school defendants.

Thomas R. Bobak, Calumet City, Ill., Howard H. Rosenfeld, Chicago, Ill., for police defendants.

DePaul Law Clinic and Leonard D. Silk, Senior Law Student, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

FLAUM, District Judge:

At the close of evidence in this civil rights case, a motion for a directed verdict by defendant school officials pends before the court. There is also a dispute as to how the jury should be instructed regarding the standard to be applied to searches of junior high school students. While the court is not in a position to make findings of fact under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a), it must characterize the evidence...

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