In 1979, students at the Tennessee Preparatory School filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against representatives of the school, alleging that the defendants unconstitutionally prevented them from communicating privately with their attorneys while in ...
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In 1979, students at the Tennessee Preparatory School filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee against representatives of the school, alleging that the defendants unconstitutionally prevented them from communicating privately with their attorneys while in detention at the school. The students were represented by Legal Services of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.
On January 31, 1979, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (Judge Thomas Anderton Wiseman, Jr.) entered a consent decree, which stated that any student of the school placed in detention should be allowed to confer privately with a previously engaged attorney between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening, as well as at other hours during emergencies. The decree stated that costs would be paid by the defendants. We have no further information on this case.
Kristen Sagar - 11/26/2007
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