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SOUDER v. McGUIRE

Civ. No. 74-590.

423 F.Supp. 830 (1976)

Kenneth SOUDER et al., Plaintiffs, v. Michael McGUIRE, M.D., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

December 9, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Ferleger, Mental Patient Civil Liberties Project, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Allen C. Warshaw, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert P. Kane, Atty. Gen., Pennsylvania Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

HERMAN, District Judge.

Kenneth Souder, a former inmate at Farview State Hospital for the criminally insane, brings this action under the Civil Rights Acts1 alleging that he and other inmates have been forcibly treated with psychotropic drugs in violation of their constitutional rights. Plaintiff sues individually for damages and for injunctive relief on behalf of himself...

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