N. A. A. C. P. v. WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INC.

Civ. A. No. 76-298.

453 F.Supp. 330 (1978)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al., Plaintiffs, v. The WILMINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

June 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas Shachtman, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, Del., Marilyn G. Rose and Herbert Semmel, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D. C., and Louise Lander, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Jeffrey M. Goddess, City Sol., Charles H. Toliver IV, and Alan Bernard Scher, Asst. City Sols., Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff intervenor, City of Wilmington.

Rodney M. Layton and William J. Wade of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Del., for defendants The Wilmington Medical Center, Inc., Crawford H. Greenewalt and Joseph A. Dallas.

James W. Garvin, Jr., U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Barbara B. O'Malley and Rebecca L. Ross, Trial Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Stephanie W. Naidoff, Regional Atty., and William Reinhart, Asst. Regional Atty., H. E. W., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Secretary of H. E. W.

Edward F. Kafader, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Dover, Del., for defendant Amos Burke, Director of the Bureau of Comprehensive Health Planning.

William C. Gordon, pro se.


OPINION

LATCHUM, Chief Judge.

This civil rights class action, spawned by the controversial proposal of the defendant Wilmington Medical Center to relocate the bulk of its urban hospital services to a suburban location, is presently before the Court on cross-motions for partial summary judgment filed by the defendant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and by the plaintiffs.1 These motions were filed in response to the...

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