WOLFE v. BEAL, ET AL.

No. 1163 C.D. 1975.

23 Pa.Commw. 475 (1976)

Debra Bartholomew Wolfe, Plaintiff v. Frank Beal, Secretary of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Dr. Robert Gatski, Superintendent of Danville State Hospital, Defendants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 1, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Elion, for plaintiff.

Howard M. Levinson, Deputy Attorney General, with him Lawrence Silver, Deputy Attorney General, and Robert P. Kane, Attorney General, for defendants.

Argued February 2, 1976, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT. Judge CRUMLISH, JR. did not participate.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, March 1, 1976:

Petitioner asks this Court to order the respondents, the Secretary of Public Welfare and the Superintendent of Danville State Hospital, respectively, to destroy all records at Danville State Hospital that pertain to petitioner's confinement after November 21, 1973, in that institution. She had been confined there under an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County dated November 21, 1973. She had been unconditionally...

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