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IN RE: POPE

No. 2567 C.D. 1981.

69 Pa.Commw. 572 (1982)

In Re: Michael Pope. Western Center, Department of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 5, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward P. Carey, Assistant Counsel, for appellant.

James A. Esler, Assistant County Solicitor, with him, James H. McLean, County Solicitor, for appellee, Mental Health/Mental Retardation Program of Allegheny County.

Argued October 4, 1982, before Judges ROGERS, BLATT and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, November 5, 1982:

The Pennsylvania Department of Welfare has appealed from a decision of the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County which temporarily committed Michael Pope, a mentally retarded person, to the Western State Center at Canonsburg for institutional supervision and care with respect to his medical problems of obesity, stemming from his mental retardation, until the Allegheny County Mental Health/Mental Retardation program, which...

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