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SOCIETY FOR GOOD WILL TO RETARDED CHILDREN v. CUOMO

No. 78-CV-1847 (JBW).

652 F.Supp. 515 (1987)

SOCIETY FOR GOOD WILL TO RETARDED CHILDREN, et al. Plaintiffs, v. Mario M. CUOMO, as Governor of the State of New York, et al. Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

January 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scheinberg, Schneps, DePetris & DePetris, Riverhead, N.Y. by Michael S. Lottman, Murray B. Schneps, for plaintiffs.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of N.Y., New York City by Caren Brutten, for defendants.

Alan M. Adler, Albany, N.Y., for the Office of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities.

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge.

I. HISTORY OF PROCEEDINGS

A class action was commenced in 1978 by the Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc., the parents' organization at Suffolk Developmental Center (the Center), and by thirteen mentally retarded individuals on behalf of themselves and more than 1,500 other persons then in residence at, or on the rolls of, the Center. Plaintiffs sought, on various federal constitutional...

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