Legal Opinion
McCollester v. City of Keene
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided May 16, 1984No. Civ. 82-50-DPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DEVINE, Chief Judge.
This is a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wherein plaintiffs, juveniles and their parents, attack the facial validity of a juvenile curfew ordinance of the City of Keene, New Hampshire, as violative of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs claim that the ordinance imposes unreasonable nocturnal curfew restraints on juveniles, invades parents’ right of family privacy, and imposes impermissible criminal liability on parents for their children’s curfew violations. Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment under 28…
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