PARALYZED VET. OF AMER. v. ELLERBE BECKET ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, P.C.

Civ. No. 96-1354 (TFH).

950 F.Supp. 393 (1996)

PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ELLERBE BECKET ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, P.C., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Jeffress, Jr., Niki Kuckes, David S. Cohen, Mathew S. Nosanchuk and Jody A. Manier, Miller, Cassidy, Larrocca & Lewin, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., John G. Kester, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

THOMAS F. HOGAN, District Judge.

In his treatise on the young American Republic, Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that "there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one."1 The French writer could easily have had in mind the present case, in which plaintiffs have sued...

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