LOWER E. SIDE NEIGH. HEALTH COUN.-SO., INC. v. RICHARDSON

No. 71 Civ. 5160.

346 F.Supp. 386 (1972)

LOWER EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH COUNCIL-SOUTH, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Elliot L. RICHARDSON, as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, et al., Defendants.

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

May 23, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

MFY Legal Services, Inc., Michael P. Opton, Louise Lander and Carolyn M. Heft, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiffs; David Rudenstine, New York City, Community Action for Legal Services, Inc., of counsel.

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S.D.N.Y., for defendants Richardson and Wilson; Gerald A. Rosenberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel.

Lester Berkelhamer, New York City, for defendants Trussel and Ferrer.

J. Lee Rankin, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendant English; Milton Weinberg, David W. Fisher, New York City, of counsel.


LASKER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs move for a preliminary mandatory injunction requiring the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation ("HHC") to continue the Lower East Side Neighborhood Health Council-South, Inc. ("Health Council") as the local agency to provide community participation in the operation of a federally funded comprehensive health program.

Congress authorized the creation of comprehensive health services programs and mandated that such...

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