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ALESSI v. COM. OF PA., DEPT. OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Civ. A. No. 88-9668.

710 F.Supp. 127 (1989)

Cynthia ALESSI, By her parents and next friends Richard ALESSI and Enola Alessi, Plaintiffs, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE and John White, Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

March 27, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis C. McAndrews, Wayne, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Gwendolyn T. Mosley, Deputy Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM

KATZ, District Judge.

The parents of Cynthia Alessi, a blind and mentally retarded young woman, brought this civil rights action on her behalf to obtain the state funding that is essential to her placement in a private residential facility. Plaintiff asks this Court for a preliminary injunction ordering Ms. Alessi's immediate placement at either the Royer-Greaves School for the Blind or the Elwyn Institute. Because I find that Ms. Alessi has a...

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