NEW YORK STATE ASS'N FOR RETARDED, ETC. v. CAREY

Nos. 72 Civ. 356, 357.

492 F.Supp. 1099 (1980)

NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CHILDREN, INC. et al., and Patricia Parisi et al., Plaintiffs, v. Hugh L. CAREY, Individually and as Governor of the State of New York et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

January 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New York Civil Liberties Union, Mental Health Law Project, New York City, for plaintiffs; Christopher A. Hansen, Robert Levy, New York City, of counsel, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, for plaintiffs; Jonathan D. Siegfried, Helen Hershkoff, New York City, of counsel.

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, New York City, for defendants; Taylor R. Briggs, Richard C. Cole, William B. Griffin, New York City, of counsel, and Robert S. Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for defendants; Robert S. Hammer, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

Jeffrey J. Sherrin, Margaret M. Corcoran, Albany, N. Y., of counsel, for New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.


BARTELS, District Judge:

This is an application by plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and other members of the Willowbrook class1 for an order implementing and enforcing the Consent Judgment entered in this action on April 30, 1975. Specifically, they seek an order enjoining defendant New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities ("OMRDD") and its officials from...

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