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MENTAL PATIENT CIVIL LIBERTIES v. HOSPITAL STAFF

Civ. A. No. 73-1512.

444 F.Supp. 981 (1977)

MENTAL PATIENT CIVIL LIBERTIES PROJECT et al. v. HOSPITAL STAFF CIVIL RIGHTS COMMITTEE, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert B. Newberg, David L. Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Melvin R. Shuster, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

On July 5, 1973, this class action litigation was commenced by the Mental Patient Civil Liberties Project, the Patients Rights Organization, and individual patients and expatients of Haverford State Hospital, individually and on behalf of the classes they sought to represent. The plaintiffs sought to enjoin the defendants' allegedly unlawful and arbitrary policies and practices relating to the patients' rights...

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