ATLANTIS COMMUNITY, INC. v. ADAMS

Civ. A. No. 77 M 707.

453 F.Supp. 825 (1978)

ATLANTIS COMMUNITY, INC., Gray Panthers of Denver, Mountain Plains Congress of Senior Organizations, Glenn Kopp, Marilyn Weaver, Bob Conrad, Mel Conrardy, and Carolyn Finnell, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Brock ADAMS in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, Robert F. Page, in his official capacity as Administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Regional Transportation District, Regional Transportation District Board of Directors, John D. Simpson, in his official capacity as Executive Director and General Manager of the Regional Transportation District, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

June 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Holland and Maurice Knaizer, Commerce City, Colo., Kent B. Connally, Dudley P. Spiller, Jr., Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

C. Scott Crabtree, Asst. U. S. Atty., Denver, Colo., and Robert W. Batchelder, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Washington, D. C., for federal defendants.

Howard J. Beck and Gregory D. Jones, John S. Pfeiffer, Robert J. Kapelke and Wiley Y. Daniel, Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, Denver, Colo., for Regional Transportation District.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MATSCH, District Judge.

This is a class action brought on behalf of all persons within the service area of the defendant Regional Transportation District (RTD) who have mobility handicaps which deny them the ability to use the mainline transit services provided by that defendant. Initially the plaintiffs moved to enjoin delivery and use of 213 new buses being acquired by RTD with federal financial assistance granted by the Urban...

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