HALDERMAN v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL AND HOSP.

Civ. A. No. 74-1345.

834 F.Supp. 757 (1993)

Terri Lee HALDERMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

August 17, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ferleger, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiffs.

Thomas Gilhool, Harrisburg, PA, for Pennsylvania Ass'n for Retarded Citizens, Moskowitz, Hight and DiNolfi.

Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, PA, for defendants.

Peter A. Glascott, James M. McNamara, Asst. City Sol., Doylestown, PA, for County of Bucks, George Metzer, Roger Bowers, Joseph Catania, Peter Bodenheimer.

Robert DeLuca, U.S. Atty., and Walter Batty, J. Stanley Pottinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Arthur Peabody, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Frank, Margolis, Edelstein & Scherlis, Joseph Goldberg, Philadelphia, PA, for Margaret Green, Betty Uphold, Alice Barton, P.E. Klick, Dr. Parocca and Helen Francis.

Thomas Kittredge, Philadelphia, PA, Patricia H. Jenkins, Media, PA, for Faith Whittlesey, Char. Keeler, Wm. Spingler, Comm. of Delaware Cty., P.P. Burrichter-Del. Cty.

Joseph M. Davidson, Marc H. Myers, Howland W. Abramson, Asst. City Solicitors, for Mayor Frank L. Rizzo.

Stephen A. Sheller, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Eric Cohen, et al.

Thomas F. Schilpp, Luchsinger, Schilpp, Murphy & Noel, Media, PA, for Commissioners of County of Delaware and Paul Burrichter, Admin.

Paul Sacks, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, PA, for Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, City Council of Philadelphia and Leon Soffer.

Roger M. Reynolds, Mont. County Sol., Ward A. Cotton, Sol., Montgomery, Joseph A. Smyth, Asst. Mont. County Sol., Norristown, PA, for A. Russell Parkhouse, Frank W. Jenkins, Lawrence H. Curry, Mont. County Comm., and Hermann A. Roether.

Jeffrey Cooper, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, PA, for Pennhurst State School & Hosp., Dept. of Public Welfare, Frank S. Beal, Stanley Meyers, Aldo Colautti, Wilbur Hobbs, Russell Rice, Jr. and C. Duane Youngberg.

Joseph P. Green, Jr., Montgomery County Legal Aid, Norristown, PA, for W.P. and R.G.

John Rogers Carroll, Philadelphia, PA, for Patricia Jenkins.

Larry Goldberg, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Thomas M. Kittredge, Philadelphia, PA, for Montgomery County and Bucks County defendants.

Steven M. Coren, Philadelphia, PA, for W.M. and B.M. (Parents of P.M.).

Edward Blumstein, Philadelphia, PA, for Parents of J.B.N.

Robert O. Baldi, New Hope, PA, for Dorothy Klock, John Klock and Sall Klock-Ward.

John F. Stoviak, Philadelphia, PA, for Cynthia J. Colona, and Her Parents Mr. & Mrs. William Colona.

Ilene W. Shane, Philadelphia, PA, for C.C.

Alan Held, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

Joseph M. Davidson, Asst. City Sol., Marc H. Myers, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, PA, for Mayor F.L. Rizzo, City Council of Philadelphia and Leon Soffer.

Pamela P. Cohen, Sandra Swenson, Philadelphia, PA, for Intervention Pennhurst Parents-Staff Ass'n.

Richard Kirschner, Kirschner, Walters & Willig, Philadelphia, PA, for Intervention, Council 13, American Federation of State, County & Mun. Employees, AFL-CIO.

Adjoa A. Burrow, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Sp. Litigation Section, Washington, DC, for U.S.

James C. Everett, Philadelphia Ass'n for Retarded Citizens, Philadelphia, PA, for R.M., Parents of D.M.

Herbert B. Newberg, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiffs Parents and Family Assoc. of Pennhurst, et al.

Larry J. Goldberg, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

Dennis E. Haggerty, Philadelphia, PA, for R.S. Parent and Court-Appointed Guardian of D.S.

Robert W. Lentz, Paoli, PA, for Kimberly Carol Lentz and Nancy Ann Macbeth.

Edmund A. Tiryak, Andrew F. Erba, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, for Daniel B.

Peter A. Galante, Philadelphia, PA, for Catherine Devitt.


MEMORANDUM

RAYMOND J. BRODERICK, District Judge.

In 1974, this action was filed on behalf of the retarded residents of Pennhurst State School and Hospital asserting violations of their constitutional and statutory rights. After eleven years of active litigation including approximately 500 court orders, 28 published opinions and three arguments before the Supreme Court, the parties entered into a Final Settlement Agreement ("FSA") which was approved...

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