PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL OF NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS v. COLEMAN

Civ. A. No. 77-180.

437 F.Supp. 1341 (1977)

PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL OF NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS, Poplar Stop the Tunnel Committee, Coalition for Better Transportation in the City, Philadelphia—People United to Save Humanity (P.U.S.H.), Disabled in Action of Pennsylvania, Inc., Resurrection, Friends of the Earth of Delaware Valley, Consumers Education and Protective Association, United Northeast Civic Association, Northeast Transportation Action Coalition, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, North Philadelphia Branch, Frances A. Markovitz and Juanita H. Wooten, on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William T. COLEMAN, Jr., Secretary of Transportation of the United States, Robert E. Patricelli, Urban Mass Transportation Administrator of the United States, William T. Sherlock, Secretary of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The City of Philadelphia and Frank L. Rizzo, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

September 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Churchill, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Harold E. Kohn, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

David W. Marston, U. S. Atty., Robert N. DeLuca, Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for Federal defendants.

Herbert G. Zahn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for Commonwealth defendants.

Louis J. Goffman, Bernard Chanin, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for City of Philadelphia and Frank L. Rizzo.


OPINION

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs, a group of civic and community organizations and individuals, have brought this action1 for declaratory and injunctive relief to prohibit the United States Secretary of Transportation (Secretary), the Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA Administrator),2 the Secretary of the Pennsylvania...

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