CATALANO v. DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS OF CITY OF NEW YORK

No. 68 Civ. 3014.

299 F.Supp. 166 (1969)

Dominick CATALANO et al., Plaintiffs, v. DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS OF the CITY OF NEW YORK, and New York State Department of Social Services, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

April 8, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Garbus, and Lee A. Albert, New York City, for plaintiffs Columbia University Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law; Gabriel Kaimowitz, Sylvia A. Law and Jeffrey Cooper, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York for New York State Department of Social Services; by Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for Department of Hospitals of the City of New York; Edward J. Mallon, Flushing, N. Y., Samuel Stein, New York City, and Philip Agree, New York City, of counsel.


MANSFIELD, District Judge.

This class action was commenced against those responsible for the supervision and operation of the Bird S. Coler Hospital, Welfare Island, New York (the "Hospital"), by 18 patients of that Hospital on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, all of whom receive federally-financed medical assistance pursuant to Title 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq. ("Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs," commonly referred to as...

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