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VECCHIONE v. WOHLGEMUTH

Civ. A. No. 73-162.

426 F.Supp. 1297 (1977)

Elvira VECCHIONE, Plaintiff, v. Helene WOHLGEMUTH et al., Defendants. Walter BURESS, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Frank BEAL et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 13, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judy Greenwood, Jonathan M. Stein, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Allen C. Warshaw and Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorneys General, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendant.

Before HUNTER, Circuit Judge, and TROUTMAN and BECKER, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

On July 11, 1974, we filed a three-judge court opinion in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case which deals with the

right of patients confined in state mental hospitals in Pennsylvania to control and manage their own property as against: (1) the right of the Commonwealth to summarily seize and control it for the duration of the hospitalization, without prior...

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