Legal Opinion
Wheeler v. Glass
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 18, 1973No. 71-1677PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
Robert Wheeler and Dennis Durfee, two mentally retarded youths institutionalized in the Children and Adolescent Unit at Elgin State Hospital, brought a class action pursuant to 42 U. S.C. § 1983 seeking declaratory, injunc-tive and pecuniary relief for alleged violations of their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The complaint alleged that the defendants, by summarily binding the named plaintiffs to their beds in spread-eagle fashion in a public area of the hospital for 771/2 hours after an alleged consensual…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Pierson v. RaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by17 opinions
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- Pearl Spence, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Jerome W. Spence, Deceased v. Henry D. StarasCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- United States ex rel. Miller v. TwomeyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
- Welsch v. LikinsDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1974
- Lojuk v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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