WYATT v. IRELAND

Civ. A. No. 3195-N.

515 F.Supp. 888 (1981)

Ricky WYATT, by and through his aunt and legal guardian Mrs. W. C. Rawlins, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Calvin Moore, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Glenn IRELAND, as Commissioner of Mental Health and the State of Alabama Mental Health Officer, et al., Defendants, United States of America, et al., Amici Curiae.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

March 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carroll and Stephen J. Ellmann, Montgomery, Ala., Jack Drake, Drake & Pierce, University, Ala., for plaintiffs.

L. Drew Redden and William H. Mills, Redden, Mills & Clark, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-intervenors.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., State of Ala., Montgomery R. Emmett Poundstone, III, Ricky Trawick, and Fairley McDonald, Asst. Attys. Gen., Dept. of Mental Health, State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., Byrd R. Latham, Patton, Latham, Legge & Cole, Athens, Ala., for defendants.

Joel Dubina and Robert E. Sasser, Jones, Murray, Stewart & Yarbrough, Montgomery, Ala., for Governor Bob James, Temporary Receiver, and defendant Dr. Rex Rainer.

Barry E. Teague, U. S. Atty., M. D. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Mary E. McClymont and Andrew J. Barrick, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Jane Bloom Yohalem and Norman S. Rosenberg, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D. C., Morton Birnbaum Brooklyn, N. Y., for amici curiae.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This cause is before the Court on the plaintiffs' March 9, 1981, motion for the designation and convening of a three-judge district court.

In support of the motion, the plaintiffs state and contend the following:

1. In this action Plaintiffs have requested by motion filed contemporaneously herewith that the General Fund of the State of Alabama be effectively altered so as to fund adequately the requirements...

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