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DOPICO v. GOLDSCHMIDT

No. 603, Docket 81-6172.

687 F.2d 644 (1982)

Rhea DOPICO, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Neil E. GOLDSCHMIDT, et al., Defendants-Appellees. DISABLED IN ACTION, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Neil E. GOLDSCHMIDT, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane E. Bloom, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City (John S. Martin, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Richard N. Papper, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, on the brief), for federal defendants-appellees.

Dean Ringel, New York City (Floyd Abrams, Thomas Jones, Devereux Chatillon, and Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, on the brief), for local defendants-appellees.

Jane Greengold Stevens, Brooklyn, N. Y. (John C. Gray, Jr., George W. Sampson, and Brooklyn Legal Services Corp., Brooklyn, N. Y., Susan Sugar Nathan and Community Action for Legal Services, Inc., Handicapped Persons Legal Support Unit, New York City, Sutton Keany, Christopher R. Wall, Aileen Meyer, and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Before TIMBERS, NEWMAN and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the extent of the efforts that federal law requires of local and federal authorities in pursuing the national policy of making urban mass transportation available to the handicapped. Plaintiffs, individually and representing all wheelchair-bound handicapped persons in New York City, initiated two consolidated class actions in the District Court for the Southern District of New York...

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