KY. ASS'N FOR RETARDED CITIZENS, INC. v. CONN

No. 80-3560.

674 F.2d 582 (1982)

KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Peter CONN, Secretary, Kentucky Department for Human Resources, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 6, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian P. Lawlor, Legal Aid Soc., Inc., Richard McHugh, Henry A. Triplett, Louisville, Ky., Henry B. Hinton, Ky. Juvenile Justice Assistance Program, Morehead, Ky., Herbert B. Newberg, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James A. Shuffett, Shuffett, Kenton, Curry & Karem, Cathy Lowe, Lexington, Ky., for Excepticon and Lorenzen.

Martin Z. Kasdan, Jr., Paul F. Fauri, Frankfort, Ky., for Conn, McElwain, Lewis and Pulliam.

Charles Wickliffe, Gen. Counsel, Frankfort, Ky., for McClure.

H. Hunter Durham, Columbia, Ky., for Lorenzen.

James D. Crawford, Joyce S. Meyers, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for amicus curiae Nat. Ass'n for Retarded Citizens.

Charles W. Dobbins, Jr., Louisville, Ky., guardian ad litem.

Steven J. Schwartz, Robert D. Fleischner, Western Mass. Legal Services, Northampton, Mass., for amicus curiae Mental Patients Advocacy Project.

William Bradford Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Rieser, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae U. S.

Before MERRITT and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

This action was filed by the Kentucky Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc., a non-profit organization, and six individual plaintiffs. In their amended complaint, plaintiffs sought preliminary and permanent injunctions to halt the planned construction of a new Outwood facility for the mentally retarded at Dawson Springs, Kentucky, and preliminary and permanent injunctions "prohibiting Defendants from appropriating or spending any...

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