SULLIVAN v. BARNETT

Civil Action No. 95-201.

913 F.Supp. 895 (1996)

Delores Scott SULLIVAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert BARNETT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

January 24, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan B. Epstein, Jablon, Epstein and Wolf, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas J. O'Brien, Philadelphia, PA, Lorrie McKinley, Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, for Delores Scott Sullivan, William Battle, Anthony Cancila, Charles Matthews, Christopher Costello, Lisa Lex, Susan Hansen, Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health.

Ralph J. Teti, Willig, Williams & Davidson, Philadelphia, PA, for The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Local 3, AFL-CIO.

Susan J. Forney, Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, for Robert Barnett, Frank Beal, Constance B. Foster, Catherine Baker Knoll, John P. O'Malley.

Arthur Makadon, Robert McL. Boote, Burt M. Rublin, Celia E. Henry, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA, for American Manufacturers Mut. Ins. Co., Continential Cas. Co., Defendant USF & G Ins. Co., Zurich American Ins. Co.

Edward D. Rogers, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA, for Cigna Corp.

Stephen J. Springer, Pamela Tobin, Patrick Vitullo, Labrum and Doak, Philadelphia, PA, for School Dist. of Philadelphia.


MEMORANDUM

BUCKWALTER, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs in this putative civil rights class action claim to be persons who had been receiving medical benefits pursuant to the Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation Law, and who were thereafter deprived of those benefits without prior notice or an opportunity to be heard pursuant to what plaintiffs' counsel characterize as an "automatic supersedeas" as provided by Section 306(f.1)(5) of...

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