HAYES v. RIDGE

Civil Action No. 96-CV-4941.

946 F.Supp. 354 (1996)

Timothy HAYES, M.D., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Tom RIDGE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

November 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Gray, Swick and Shapiro, Washington, DC, for Timothy Hayes, M.D., Arthur N. Barnaby, M.D., William D. Smith, M.D., Gregory J. Lynch, D.O., Ted S. Eisenberg, D.O., Arthur J. Martella, M.D., Robert Driscoll, D.O., George Isajiw, M.D., Eric J. Carlson, M.D., Charles H. Schaefer, M.D., V.S. Shamkar, M.D., Francis C. Collins, D.O., John Salahub, D.P.M., Alphonse Di Giovanni, M.D., Michael L. Schorr, D.O., Ellen A. Mahony, Carl F. Simons, M.D., Louis A. Meir, M.D., Bruce Ganey, D.P.M., Arthur Olshum, M.D., John La Manna, M.D., Herbert G. Wendelken, D.O., John D. Jaffee, M.D., Rebecca Choitz, C.P.M., Ronald A. Leonard, M.D., Ernest M. Gordon, M.D., Gary D.A. Lewis, D.O., Walter J. Adamek, Jr., D.O., Marc B. Osias, M.D., Dennis Braun, M.D., Desmond J. Reilly, M.D., Andrew J. Szebenyi, M.D., Gilma Ramirez, M.D., Roy Stoller, M.D., Joel Loeb, M.D., Joseph M. McGuckin, M.D., F.A.C.S., Rashidia K. Kanchwala, M.D.P.C., Marcel A. Thonet, M.D., Carl F. Schultheis, Jr., M.D., Nicholas R. Pagliei, D.O., Natu R. Patel, M.D., Jack Spivack, M.D., Bruce A. Lief, M.D., Pierre Y. Ghayad, M.D., Michael D. Stulpin, M.D., John D. Jaffe, M.D., Thomas C. Peff, M.D., Maureen Brennan-Weaver, D.P.M., Joseph Rabson, M.D., Jay R. Weiskopf, M.D., Joseph Y, M.D., James McCord, M.D., Donald Armento, M.D., Alberto Larrieu, M.D., James D. Banmiller, M.D., Emely Karandy, D.O., Robert Greenhalgh, M.D., Robert Allon, M.D., Francis Carlson, M.D., Francis G. Y, M.D., John J. Y, M.D., Gary W. Muller, M.D., Ruben I. Ash, M.D., Paul H. Noble, M.D., Carl W. Sharer, D.O.

Guy A. Donatelli, William H. Lamb, Lamb, Windle & McErlane, P.C., West Chester, PA, for Tom Ridge, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Nicolette Parisi, in her putative official capacity as Inspector General in the Executive Office of Tom Ridge Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John H. Reed, in his official capacity as Director of the Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Linda Kaiser, in her official capacity as Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

William H. Lamb, Lamb, Windle & McErlane, P.C., West Chester, PA, for Yvette Kane, in her official capacity as Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Cynthia Warner, in her official capacity as Administrator of the State Board of Medicine of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Nathaniel Alston, P.A., Charles J. Bannon, M.D., Kathleen Galop, Esq., Oliver Morris Johnson, Esq., Daniel B. Kimball, Jr., M.D., Solomon C. Luo, M.D., Sant Ram, M.D., Richard E. Wright, M.D., in their official capacities as the members of the State Board of Medicine of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Jack D. Albert, Daniel D. Dowd, Jr., D.O., Silvia M. Ferretti, D.O., Morris A. Fishman, D.O., Kathleen Galop, Esq., Dennis M. Guest, D.O., William R. Henwood, D.O., John L. Johnston, D.O., George M. Kern, Quentin C. Weaver, in their official capacities as Members of the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dorthy Childress, in her official capacity as Administrator of the State Board of Podiatry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Stanley Bock, D.P.M., Judy Carrhart, M.D., Michael Cibik, Esq., Barbara Davis-Kenyon, D.P.M., Jack Rubinlicht, D.P.M., Maria Wynder, D.P.M., in their official capacities as Members of the State Board of Podiatry of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOHN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are sixty-six physicians licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania. The defendants are the Governor, the Director of the Medical Professional Liability Catastrophe Loss Fund, ("the CAT Fund"), the Inspector General, the Insurance Commissioner, the Secretary of State of Pennsylvania, and members of the State Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Podiatry.

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