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HALDERMAN v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL & HOSP.

No. CIV. A. 74-1345.

9 F.Supp.2d 544 (1998)

Terri Lee HALDERMAN, et al. v. PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL & HOSPITAL, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

July 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Ferleger, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiffs.

Judith A. Gran, Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for plaintiff-intervenors The ARC-PA (formerly the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens), et al.

Robert H. Stern, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, DC, for plaintiff-intervenor U.S.

Jerome J. Shestack, Barry M. Klayman, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for defendant Com. of Pa.

Stephen C. Miller, Law Dept., Philadelphia, PA, for defendant County of Philadelphia.

MEMORANDUM

BRODERICK, District Judge.

In 1977, after a thirty-two day trial, this Court held that the constitutional and statutory rights of the members of the Pennhurst class had been violated. In 1985, after several years on appeal, including three arguments before the United States Supreme Court, this Court approved a settlement agreement and entered it as a consent decree (the "1985 Decree"). The settlement was greeted throughout the nation...

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