Chenkin v. BELLEVUE HOSP. CTR., NYC, ETC.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

This action challenges the legality of a regulation issued by a large urban municipal hospital in an effort to prevent or reduce pilferage of hospital property, whereby bags, packages and large parcels carried by employees leaving the hospital are subject to random spot inspection. The question for decision is whether such inspections are violative of the Fourth Amendment, made applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment. 1

Plaintiff is an assistant chemist employed by Bellevue Hospital Center (“Bellevue”). He instituted this action for a…