DISABLED IN ACTION OF PENNSYLVANIA v. COLEMAN

Civ. A. No. 76-1913.

448 F.Supp. 109 (1978)

DISABLED IN ACTION OF PENNSYLVANIA, INC., Paralyzed Veterans of America, Inc., American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, Inc., Disabled in Action of Baltimore, Disabled in Action of New York, Ltd., Disabled in Action of New Jersey, Inc., National Capitol Area Chapter of the National Paraplegia Foundation, Inc., National Caucus on the Black Aged, National Congress of Organizations of the Physically Handicapped, Inc., National Council of Senior Citizens, Inc., Pennsylvania Association of Older Persons, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy Association of Pennsylvania, Jay Newman, Al Marcus, Joyce Brock, Derek Bowen, Harry Burns, Emil Sabatini and Sonia Stein v. William T. COLEMAN, Jr., Secretary, United States Department of Transportation, Robert E. Patricelli, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, and Norbert T. Tiemann, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Raggio, Public Interest Law Center, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

David W. Marston, U. S. Atty., Alexander Ewing, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BECHTLE, District Judge.

The above-named plaintiffs brought this action on June 17, 1976, against the defendants,* on behalf of the class of all mobile disabled and elderly persons who are denied ready access to, and effective use of, federally financed mass transportation by reason of the physical and structural barriers in the design of public transit equipment.

Plaintiffs' (hereinafter "Disabled...

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