HIGHTOWER BY DEHLER v. OLMSTEAD

Civil Action File No. 1:93CV641JTC.

959 F.Supp. 1549 (1996)

Ronnie E. HIGHTOWER, by Mark F. DEHLER as guardian ad litem and next friend, Donald Ruff, Sylvia Butts and Joy Shepard on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Tommy OLMSTEAD, individually and in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Resources, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

September 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beverly Patricia Downing, Office of State Attorney General, Atlanta, GA, for movant Charter Lake Hosp. and defendant Roland.

George Pennebaker, Office of George Pennebaker, Dallas, GA, Susan C. Jamieson, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, DeKalb County Regional Office, Decatur, GA, Phyllis J. Holmen, Torin Dana Togut, Lisa Jane Krisher, Georgia Legal Services Program, Central Office, Gerald R. Weber, American Civil Liberties Union, Nancy Lord, Office of Nancy Lord, Atlanta, GA, Howard Gary Sokol, Georgia Legal Services, Macon, GA, for plaintiff Ronnie E. Hightower.

Jonathan A. Zimring, Zimring & Ellin, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiff Joy Shepard.

Susan C. Jamieson, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, DeKalb County Regional Office, Decatur, GA, Phyllis J. Holmen, Torin Dana Togut, Lisa Jane Krisher, Georgia Legal Services Program, Central Office, Jonathan A. Zimring, Zimring & Ellin, Gerald R. Weber, American Civil Liberties Union, Nancy Lord, Office of Nancy Lord, Atlanta, GA, Howard Gary Sokol, Georgia Legal Services, Macon, GA, for plaintiff Donald Ruff.

George Pennebaker, Office of George Pennebaker, Dallas, GA, for plaintiff Sylvia Butts.

Beverly Patricia Downing, Carol Atha Cosgrove, William C. Joy, Office of State Attorney General, Atlanta, GA, Jefferson James Davis, Davis & Davis, Decatur, GA, for defendant David L. Evans.

Jefferson James Davis, Davis & Davis, Decatur, GA, for defendants James W. Mimbs, M.D., Jose Roberts Flores, M.D., George Grant, M.D., James B. Bradley, M.D., Foster Brin, M.D., Anita-Rae Smith, M.D.

Beverly Patricia Downing, Carol Atha Cosgrove, William C. Joy, Office of State Attorney General, Jefferson Davis, Jr., Kilpatrick Stockton, Atlanta, GA, for defendants Britton Dennis, Tommy Olmstead.


ORDER

CAMP, District Judge.

This action is before the Court on Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment [# 93-1], and Plaintiffs' Motion to Correct Clerical Mistake [# 101-1]. Parties argued the present motion for summary judgment before the Court on June 7, 1996.

I: FACTS

A) Background

This suit is a class action brought by a group of mental patients at a state mental hospital to enjoin the allegedly unlawful administration...

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