HALDERMAN v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL AND HOSP.

Civ. A. No. 74-1345.

610 F.Supp. 1221 (1985)

Terri Lee HALDERMAN, et al. v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

April 5, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Mitchell W. Dale, Lawrence Goldberg, Washington, D.C., for U.S.A.

Thomas K. Gilhool, Frank Laski, Philadelphia, Pa., for PARC.

Sandra Swenson, Pamela Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for Pennhurst Parents-Staff Ass'n.

Allen C. Warshaw, Harrisburg, Pa., for Com. of Pa.

James M. McNamara, Doylestown, Pa., for Bucks County.

Thomas M. Kittredge, Philadelphia, Pa., for Chester, Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery Counties.

Patricia H. Jenkins, Media, Pa., for Delaware County.

R. Stephen Barrett, Norristown, Pa., for Montgomery County.

Mark A. Aronchick, Pauline Cohen, Richard Gold, Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia County.


MEMORANDUM

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

No one, and certainly not this Court, anticipated that this civil action commenced on May 30, 1974 would be actively litigated for more than ten years, requiring 2,192 docket entries, about 500 Court orders, twenty-eight published opinions, and three arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. See 465 U.S. 89, 104 S.Ct. 900, 79 L.Ed.2d 67 (1984); 451 U.S....

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