Terri Lee HALDERMAN et al., Plaintiffs,
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors,
United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor,
v.
PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 21, 1978.
June 21, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.
The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia by Thomas K. Gilhool, Chief Counsel, Frank J. Laski and Edward A. Stutman, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff-intervenors, Pennsylvania Assn. for Retarded Citizens (Moskowitz, Hight, Preusch and DiNolfi).
Peter A. Glascott, James M. McNamara, Asst. City Sols., Doylestown, Pa., for County of Bucks, George Metzer, Roger Bowers, Joseph Catania and Peter Bodenheimer.
J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Arthur E. Peabody, Jr., Washington, D. C., for U. S.
Frank, Margolis, Edelstein & Scherlis, Joseph Goldberg, Philadelphia, Pa., for Margaret Green, Betty Uphold, Alice Barton, P. E. Klick, Dr. Parocca and Helen Francis.
Thomas M. Kittredge, Philadelphia, Pa., Patricia H. Jenkins, Media, Pa., for Faith Whittlesey, Char. Keeler, Wm. Spingle, Comm. of Delaware County, P. P. Burrichter-Delaware County.
Thomas F. Schilpp, Luchsinger, Schilpp, Murphy & Noel, Media, Pa., for Commissioners of County of Delaware and Paul Burrichter, Administrator.
Thomas M. Kittredge, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for Robert Strebl, Earl Baker, Leo McDermott and William McKendry.
Paul Sacks, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, City Counsel of Philadelphia, and Leon Soffer.
Roger B. Reynolds, Montgomery County Sol., Ward A. Cotton, Sol., Montgomery, Joseph A. Smyth, Asst. Montgomery County Sol., Norristown, Pa., for A. Russell Parkhouse, Frank W. Jenkins, Lawrence H. Curry, Montgomery County Comm., and Hermann A. Roether.
Norman Watkins, Jeffrey Cooper, Deputy Attys. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, Pa., for Pennhurst State School & Hospital, Dept. of Public Welfare, Frank S. Beal, Stanley Meyers, Aldo Colautti, Wilbur Hobbs, Russell Rice, Jr., and C. Duane Youngberg.
Stephen A. Sheller and Bruce M. Ludwig, Philadelphia, Pa., for intervenors, Pennhurst Parents-Staff Ass'n.
United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
MEMORANDUM
RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.
In an opinion dated December 23, 1977, this Court held that the constitutional and statutory rights of the retarded at Pennhurst State School and Hospital ("Pennhurst") had been, and are being, violated. In an order dated March 17, 1978, the Court entered a judgment order mandating the appropriate relief. On April 11, 1978, the Philadelphia Defendants filed a notice...
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