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JACKSON v. SCHOEMEHL

No. 85-1859.

788 F.2d 1296 (1986)

Earl JACKSON; Elvie Ronsome Kathryn Leonard; The Rev. Harold Davis; Helen Floyd; Mattie Bowman; Betty Floyd; Margaret Sanders; Ad Hoc Committee to Save Homer G. Phillips Hospital; Ethel McCollough; Robert Grant; The Rev. F. Brown; Eleanor Grant; Addie Richardson; and A.J. Williams, Appellants, v. Vincent SCHOEMEHL, Mayor, City of St. Louis; Dr. Helen Bruce, Comm. of Health; Thomas Sehr, Director of Health & Hospitals; Dr. John Noble, Admn. City Hospital; Board of Estimate & Apportionment; Thomas Zych, President, Board of Aldermen; Paul Berra, Comptroller; and Director of Health, Education & Welfare, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided April 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Russell, St. Louis, Mo., for appellants.

Edward J. Hanlon, St. Louis, Mo., for appellees.

Before ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, who are 14 black and older residents of St. Louis, filed this action on August 8, 1979, against city and federal officials and health care providers, to prevent both the closing of Homer G. Phillips Hospital (Phillips), located in a predominantly black area of the city, and the removal of equipment from Phillips to another city hospital.1 After this Court affirmed the District Court's denial of a preliminary...

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