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PennDPW v. ALESSI

No. 2210 C.D. 1987.

119 Pa.Commw. 160 (1988)

546 A.2d 157

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare, and John White, Secretary of the Department of Public Welfare, Appellants v. Cynthia Alessi, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 24, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gwendolyn T. Mosley, Deputy Attorney General, with her, Andrew S. Gordon, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Chief of Litigation Section, and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for appellants.

Dennis C. McAndrews, for appellee.

Argued June 14, 1988, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR., Judge DOYLE, and Senior Judge NARICK, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE DOYLE, August 24, 1988:

Before us for review is an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County which held the Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and its Secretary, John F. White, in contempt and fined them one-hundred-fifty dollars per day.

This case is indeed tragic. Ms. Cynthia Alessi, a mentally retarded individual, was ordered by the common pleas court to be placed in the Royer-Greaves School for the Blind. The propriety of that...

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