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WHEATON v. HAGAN

Nos. C-74-97-G and C-75-37-G.

435 F.Supp. 1134 (1977)

Elizabeth WHEATON, Plaintiff, v. C. T. HAGAN, D. W. Moorehead, and W. H. Sullivan, Jr., Individually and as Members of the War Memorial Commission, James F. Oshust, Individually and as Manager of the Greensboro Coliseum, and William E. Swing, Individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Greensboro, Defendants. Deborah Kaye WHEELER, Plaintiff, v. C. T. HAGAN, D. W. Moorehead, and W. H. Sullivan, Jr., Individually and as Members of the War Memorial Commission, James F. Oshust, Individually and as Manager of the Greensboro Coliseum, and William E. Swing, Individually and as Chief of Police of the City of Greensboro, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

August 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Miles Foy, III, and James A. Medford, Greensboro, N. C., for plaintiffs Elizabeth Wheaton and Deborah Kaye Wheeler.

Jesse L. Warren, City Atty., Dale Shepherd and James J. Coman, Asst. City Attys., Greensboro, N. C., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GORDON, Chief Judge.

These two cases, consolidated for purposes of discovery and trial, bring into question the constitutionality of search and arrest policies presently in force at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex (hereinafter, the "Coliseum"). In the first case the plaintiff, Elizabeth Wheaton, challenges the official policy that requires Coliseum patrons to submit to search as a condition...

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