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HOOTS v. COM. OF PA.

Civ. A. No. 71-538.

545 F.Supp. 1 (1981)

Dorothy HOOTS, individually and as mother of her children, Janelle Hoots and Jamie Hoots, et al. v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, et al.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Henderson, Neighborhood Legal Services Ass'n, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

Allen C. Warshaw, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., Alton P. Arnold, Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendant Com. of Pa.

J. Robert Maxwell, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Churchill Borough.

John J. Hickton, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Swissvale.

G. N. Evashavik, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Swissvale.

Anton Bigman, Pittsburgh, Pa., for General Braddock.

John W. Brueck, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Edgewood.

James S. Liebman, New York City, for plaintiff.

OPINION

WEBER, Chief Judge.

We begin bearing in mind a profound observation of Henry Louis Mencken that every difficult problem always has a simple solution and that solution is always wrong. There is no simple solution here and we have searched all of those offered. Any solution is involved with high emotional reactions to the extent that calm discussion is rarely possible in the presence of as many as twelve sets of counsel, mostly representing diverse...

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