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Case Name	Tinetti v. Wittke	JC-WI-0006
Docket / Court	79-C-447 ( E.D. Wis. )
State/Territory	Wisconsin
Case Type(s)	Jail Conditions
Special Collection	Strip Search Cases
Case Summary	Case summary not yet recorded compress summary

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Issues and Causes of Action

Issues

Affected Gender

Female

Constitutional Clause

Due Process

Equal Protection

Unreasonable search and seizure

General

Strip search policy

Type of Facility

Government-run

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983

Case Details


Defendant(s)	Racine County
Plaintiff Description	Plaintiff, a female, was pulled over for speeding. Since she was not a resident of Wisconsin and could not post a $40 cash bond, she was taken to Racine County Jail where she was strip-searched without probable cause of contraband.
Class action status sought	No
Class action status granted	No
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	Plaintiff
Public Int. Lawyer	No
Nature of Relief	Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief	Litigation
Order Duration	1979 - n/a
Filed	1979
Case Ongoing	No

Additional Resources


	Jail Strip-Search Cases: Patterns and Participants http://law.duke.edu/journals/lcp Date: Spring 2008 By: Margo Schlanger (Washington University in St. Louis Faculty) Citation: 71 Law & Contemp. Problems 65 (2008) [ Detail ] [ External Link ]

Documents

Docket(s)

No docket sheet currently in the collection

General Documents

Memorandum and Order (479 F.Supp. 486) (E.D. Wis.) JC-WI-0006-0001.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Date: 10/31/1979 Source: Google Scholar
Per Curiam Opinion (620 F.2d 161) JC-WI-0006-0002.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Date: 04/24/1980

People


Judges	Castle, Latham (Seventh Circuit) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0002 Sprecher, Robert Arthur (Seventh Circuit) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0002 Swygert, Luther Merritt (N.D. Ind., Seventh Circuit) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0002 Warren, Robert Willis (FISCR, E.D. Wis.) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0001
Plaintiff's Lawyers	Dall'osto, Raymond M. (Wisconsin) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0002 Rose, Terry W. (Wisconsin) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0001 \| JC-WI-0006-0002
Defendant's Lawyers	Kjeldgaard, Richard H. (Wisconsin) show/hide docs JC-WI-0006-0001 \| JC-WI-0006-0002