COOK v. OCHSNER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL

Civ. A. No. 70-1969.

319 F.Supp. 603 (1970)

Roszella COOK, Sallie Lee, Monica Hunter, Ora Price, Merita Moore, Mary Jones, Shirley Lampton, Wilhemenia Brown, on their own behalf, on the behalf of their minor children and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. OCHSNER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL, and its Director H. E. Hamilton et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

November 25, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey B. Schwartz, Washington, D. C., of National Tenants Organization, Mark Rudy and Daniel Karnes of People's Action Center, New Orleans, La., Marilyn G. Rose of National Legal Program on Health Problems of the Poor, Los Angeles, Cal., Barry J. Portman, New Orleans, La., of New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation, for plaintiffs.

Peter G. Burke, of Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Thomas Rayer, of Denechaud & Denechaud, Walter M. Barnett, of Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Leonard B. Levy, of Dufour, Levy, Marks, Lucas & Osborne, Neville M. Landry, of Duke & Porterie, Charles Kohlmeyer, of Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews & Schumacher, C. Ellis Henican, of Henican, James & Cleveland, Charles McHale, Jr., Charles Hamilton, Ben Slater, Walter Suthon, III, Stephen B. Lemann and J. Thomas Lewis, of Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, La., Peter Duffy, Metairie, La., John J. D'Angelo, Gretna, La., Walter J. Harrell of State Dept. of Hospitals, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF REASONS

COMISKEY, District Judge.

In this class action the plaintiffs seek, inter alia, to compel the defendant hospitals to provide a reasonable volume of services to persons unable to pay therefor. The defendants, ten hospitals and the Director of the Louisiana State Department of Hospitals, have filed numerous pre-trial motions. It is the opinion of this Court that the most serious contention raised by the defendants is that the plaintiffs...

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