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UNITED STATES v. BEXAR CTY.

Civ. A. Nos. SA78CA419, SA78CA421.

484 F.Supp. 855 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America v. BEXAR COUNTY, Bexar County Commissioners Court and its members, Bexar County Hospital District and members of its Board of Managers, Warren G. Harding, and Joseph Seitchik. Lupe GUERRA, Eloisa Ramos, Mary Rocha, Ella Martinez, Mary Cantu, Alice Simmons, Tara Lewis, South Texas Health Consumers Association, Barrio Betterment and Development Corp., Inner City Development Corp., and City of San Antonio on behalf of its citizens, v. BEXAR COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT, Sam Madrid, Tom Fordyce, Donald T. Hart, Ralph O. Dietert, Craig Johnson, Dr. M. L. Preacher, Harvey Komet; Bexar County Commissioners Court, A. J. Ploch, Tom Stolhandske, Jeffrey Wentworth, Leo Mendoza, Tom Vickers; Texas Health Facilities Commission, Melvin Roland, Reynold Rosson, Bolin Mahaffey; and Texas Department of Health.

United States District Court, W. D. Texas, San Antonio Division.

February 20, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathy S. Surace, Daniel A. Searing, Donald Pailen, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D. C., Hugh P. Shovlin, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for U. S. A.

Stephen G. Cochran, Nancy O'Neill, Bexar County Legal Aid Association, San Antonio, Tex., for private plaintiffs.

Steven W. Arronge, Asst. City Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for City of San Antonio.

John A. Daniels, Jack Efron, Daniels, Efron & Holden, San Antonio, Tex., Raymond J. Kelly, Jr., Thomas G. Dent, Marc Krass, Seyforth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for Bexar County Hospital District.

Keith W. Burris, Asst. Dist. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for Bexar County Commissioners' Court.

OPINION

SPEARS, District Judge.

This consolidated case was filed to challenge the statutory and constitutional validity of the decision of the Bexar County Hospital District to relocate all inpatient maternity and newborn nursery services from the Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital in downtown San Antonio to the Bexar County Hospital, located eleven miles to the northwest. The complaints were filed by a group of private citizens, several organizations which...

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