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DIXON v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF COMMONWEALTH OF PA.

Civ. No. 69-293.

313 F.Supp. 653 (1970)

Donald DIXON, Blair Finkenbinder, John Nichols, Dominic Rizzelli, Albert Singletary, Richard Tyciak and Harold Vanderpool, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. The ATTORNEY GENERAL OF the COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, the Secretary of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commissioner of Mental Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Superintendent of Farview State Hospital, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

June 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. McClure, Jr., Lewisburg, Pa., Richard L. Bazelon, Curtis R. Reitz, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Henry W. Sawyer, III, Philadelphia, Pa., amicus curiae.

Joseph P. Work, Deputy Atty. Gen., and William C. Sennett, Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., Jacques H. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fred Speaker, Atty. Gen., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendant.

Before BIGGS, Circuit Judge, and SHERIDAN and NEALON, District Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

PER CURIAM.

The seven named plaintiffs at the time of filing the suit at bar1 were inhabitants of Farview, the Pennsylvania mental hospital primarily devoted to the confinement, and to some degree, to the treatment of the criminally insane. The complaint alleges that albeit the seven came to Farview by different legal routes they nonetheless have one thing in common in that they are presently committed and...

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