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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Civ. A. No. 79-2937.

482 F.Supp. 1248 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA; Frank L. Rizzo, Mayor of Philadelphia; Hillel S. Levinson, Managing Director; Marvin E. Aronson, M.D., Medical Examiner; Irvin R. Davis, Director of Finance; Joseph F. O'Neill, Police Commissioner; Harry G. Fox, Deputy Police Commissioner; Morton B. Solomon, Deputy Police Commissioner; Frank A. Scafidi, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Richard Bridgeford, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Joseph Golden, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Robert Wolfinger, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; James Herron, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; John McHugh, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Ferdinand Spiewak, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Gregore Sambor, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; Edwin S. Parker, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; William Devlin, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; John Craig, Chief Inspector of the Philadelphia Police Department; David Cordivari, Captain of the Philadelphia Police Department; Edmund Lyons, Superintendent of Prisons.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

October 30, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Michael Thrasher, Drew S. Days, III, Charles Tiefer, Martha Fleetwood, Frederick S. Mittelman, Washington, D. C., Peter F. Vaira, John Penrose, William J. McGettigan, Howard D. Finkelstein, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Sheldon Albert, John R. Padova, James E. Beasley, Ellen Q. Suria, Richard A. Sprague, Edward H. Rubenstone, Stephen T. Saltz, Mark Goldberg, Ralph J. Teti, James M. Moran, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

DITTER, District Judge.

In this widely publicized lawsuit, the United States government, through its Attorney General, seeks broad declaratory and equitable relief against the allegedly unconstitutional practices and policies of the Philadelphia police department. In addition to the City of Philadelphia itself, the named defendants include the Mayor, the Managing Director, the Medical Examiner, the Director...

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