BLACKMAN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. CIV.A. 97-1629 PLF.

277 F.Supp.2d 71 (2003)

Mikeisha BLACKMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

August 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tamara Lynn Seltzer, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Ronald Lee Drake, Alisa H. Reff, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Myrna L. Fawcett, Bonita Alexis Jones-Moon, Fawcett & Fawcett, Washington, DC, Paul Leonard Chassy, Chassy & Chassy, Kensington, MD Margaret A. Kohn, Kohn & Einstein, Andrew L. Lipps, Ky Elaine Kirby, Swidler, Berlin, Shereff & Friedman, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Carolyn W. Houck, Chevy Chase, MD, Charles Anthony Moran, James E. Williams, III, Jester & Williams, Washington, DC, Daniel Adlai Katz, Andalman & Flynn, Silver Spring, MD, Sara Dorsch, The Maryland Disability Law Center, Baltimore, MD, Travis Anthony Murrell, Murrell & Brown, James Edward Brown, James L. Brown & Associates, PLLC, Elizabeth Tacy Jester, Anna Elizabeth Jenefsky, Karen D. Alvarez, Washington, DC, Ellen Douglass Dalton, Paul S. Dalton, Dalton & Dalton, P.C., William E. Houston, Dalton & Dalton, P.C., Alexandria, VA, Arthur Hughes Fawcett, Jr., Diana Marjorie Savit, Bowytz, Savit Szymkowicz, L.L.P., Bethesda, MD, Lawrence Hart Huebner, Washington, DC, Michael Jeffrey Eig, Haylie Michelle Iseman, Michael J. Eig & Associates, P.C., Chevy Chase, MD, Matthew Barry Bogin, Futrovsky, Nitkin & Scherr, Chartered, Rockville, MD, Laura N. Rinaldi, Matthew I. Fraidin, Maria Ludmila Merkowitz, Office of Corporation Counsel, D.C. Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Andrew W. Racca, Steptoe & Johnson, L.L.P., Daniel Herbert Margolis, Barbara A. Miller, Birch, Horton, Bittner & Cherot, Charlotte Anne Bradley, U.S. Attorney'S Office, William Johnson Earl, Jr., Martin Lewis Grossman, Edward P. Taptich, Nancy S. Schultz, Urenthea McQuinn, Cary Dale Pollack, Robert C. Utiger, Melvin W. Bolden, Jr., Robert Ray Rigsby, Jeffery Thomas Infelise, Jonathan F. Potter, Eden I. Miller, Office of Corporation Counsel, D.C., Veleter Mazych, Cathye Hopkins, DCPS General Counsel, Daniel A. Rezneck, Office of Corporation Counsel, D.C., Washington, DC, Laurie Pouzzner McManus, Arlington, VA, Lisa Annette Bell, Office of the General Counsel, DC Dept. of Consumer & Regulatory Affair, Grace Perry-Gaiter, District of Columbia Public Library, Washington, DC, Barbara A. Miller, for defendants.

Charles Anthony Moran, Washington, DC, for intervenor-defendant/movant.

Elizabeth Tacy Jester, James E. Williams, III, Jester & Williams, Washington, DC, for claimant.

Elise T. Baach, Washington, DC, for special master.

Lisa Kay Coleman, D.C. Office Of Adjudications & Hearings, Washington, DC, for movant.


OPINION

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court for consideration of five reports filed by the Special Master in which she recommends that the Court grant the motions for preliminary injunction filed on behalf of eleven members of the class. Plaintiffs' class counsel and/or counsel for defendants filed objections to the Special Master's reports and recommendations pursuant to Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure...

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