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LEGION v. RICHARDSON

No. 72 Civ. 2576.

354 F.Supp. 456 (1973)

LEGION et al., Plaintiffs, v. RICHARDSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

As Amended March 16, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Birnbaum, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y., New York City, for defendants Richardson, Smith, Kelly and the United States; Taggart D. Adams, Asst. U. S. Atty., of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. State of New York, for State defendants; Brenda Soloff, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

Before FEINBERG, Circuit Judge, and GURFEIN and STEWART, District Judges.

OPINION

STEWART, District Judge:

Plaintiffs have brought this class action allegedly on behalf of 1,000,000 mentally ill Americans confined in public mental institutions. Plaintiffs have been provided with pseudonyms.1 Their actual identities are unknown to the other parties in this action. The federal defendants include the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Regional Commissioner of Health, Education...

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