FISCHER ET AL. v. DEPT. OF PUB. WEL. ET AL.

No. 283 C.D. 1981.

85 Pa.Commw. 240 (1984)

JoAnne Fischer et al., Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Kolbert, with her, Susan Cary Nicholas, Seth Kreimer and Robert F. Williams, for petitioners.

Andrew S. Gordon, Senior Deputy Attorney General, with him, Daniel R. Schuckers, Deputy Attorney General, Allen C. Warshaw, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Litigation Section, LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, and Stanley Slipakoff, Assistant Counsel, Department of Public Welfare, for respondents.

Nadine Taub, with her, Pamela Pryor Cohen, Swenson and Cohen, for Amici Curiae of the National Women's Health Network et al.

William Bentley Ball, with him, Philip J. Murren and Sandra E. Wise, Ball & Skelly, for Amici Curiae, Dr. Dorothy Czarnecki et al.

Argued May 1, 1984, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR. and Judges WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL, DOYLE, BARRY and COLINS.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., September 20, 1984:

Before us are petitioners' and respondents' exceptions to the decree nisi1 of Judge JOHN A. MacPHAIL, dated March 9, 1984, sitting as Chancellor. Petitioners, a group of named individuals and a clergyman suing on their own behalf as well as all others similarly situated, a physician, and several non-profit medical service...

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