Cox v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad

How later courts describe this case

• holding that administration of tranquilizing drugs to juveniles without trying measures short of medication and without adequate medical guidance constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Eighth Amendment
• experiments with mind-altering drugs on prisoners in state mental facility is actionable under § 1983
• juveniles who were involuntarily committed— one-third for non-criminal offenses — to a correctional institution have a constitutional right to rehabilitative treatment
• Supreme Court of the United States denying certiorari, “it appearing that the judgment below rests upon an adequate state ground”
• no Travel Act violation based on accepting a check that cleared through an out-of-state Federal Reserve Bank
• perjury and tax evasion counts against one defendant properly joined to counts relating to underlying claim of bribery against both defendants, because evidence of former counts pertinent to latter
• warrant for search of apartment not sufficient to justify search of apartment visitor’s suitcase
• certiorari denied, "it appearing that judgment below rests upon an adequate state ground"