CITIZENS FOR ST. HOSP. v. COM. OF PA.

No. 1746 C.D. 1988.

123 Pa.Commw. 150 (1989)

553 A.2d 496

Citizens for State Hospital, Doctor Alexander M. Munchak, Chairman, Vicky Wittenbreder, President of Senior Citizens of Lackawanna County, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert Casey, Governor et al., Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald D. Oley, for petitioners.

Michael B. Sutton, Deputy Attorney General, with him, John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief, Litigation Section, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued December 15, 1988, before Judges DOYLE, PALLADINO and SMITH, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE PALLADINO, January 26, 1989:

Before us in this case are the preliminary objections of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Governor of the Commonwealth, the Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare (DPW), and the President of the Board of Trustees of Scranton State General Hospital (collectively the Commonwealth) to a petition, in the nature of a complaint in equity, filed in this court's original jurisdiction by: Citizens for State Hospital...

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