Ad Hoc Committee to Save Homer G. Phillips Hospital v. City of St. Louis

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GUNN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the merits of plaintiffs’ claims after a two-day consolidated class action hearing and non-*219jury trial.1 The Court having considered the pleadings, the testimony of the witnesses, the deposition testimony and the documents in evidence, and being fully advised in the premises, makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law as required by Rule 52 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Fed.R.Civ.P. 52.

Plaintiffs, several black, and unemployed persons, living on the north side of the City of St. Louis and the…