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DIXON v. WEINBERGER

No. 74-285.

405 F.Supp. 974 (1975)

William DIXON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Caspar WEINBERGER et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

December 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. and Marilyn Rose, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D. C. and Patricia M. Wald, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Peter R. Reilly, Asst. U. S. Atty., John H. Suda, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for defendants.

Armin U. Kuder, Alan L. Seifert, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae Washington Psychiatric Society.

OPINION

AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., District Judge.

This class action is brought by District of Columbia residents who are patients confined pursuant to the 1964 Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act, 21 D.C. Code § 501 et seq. (hereafter referred to as the 1964 Act), in St. Elizabeths Hospital, a federally administered mental institution located in Southeast Washington. The defendants include the...

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