Legal Opinion
Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 13, 1977No. Civ. A. 73-162PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
I. Preliminary Statement
On July 11, 1974, we filed a three-judge court opinion in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case which deals with the
right of patients confined in state mental hospitals in Pennsylvania to control and manage their own property as against: (1) the right of the Commonwealth to summarily seize and control it for the duration of the hospitalization, without prior notice or hearing on the issue of the patient’s competency to control that property; and (2) the right of the Commonwealth to appropriate part of the patient’s property in…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Edelman v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- United States v. United Mine Workers of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- American Fire & Casualty Co. v. FinnSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- King v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Railway Co. v. SwanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Page v. SchweikerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1986
- Phelps Dodge Corp. v. GuerraNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1978
- Vecchione v. WohlgemuthCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1977
- Delaware Valley Citizens' Council for Clean Air, American Lung Association of Philadelphia, and Montgomery County, Delchester Lung Association, Sierra Club, Pennsylvania Chapter Friends of the Earth of the Delaware Valley, Citizens' Committee for Environmental Control, Quinn, Kevin, Farrell, Kaysi, Weiss, Ruth G. Klinkner, John, Biez, Elizabeth S., Shulman, Mona v. Commonwealth of Pa., & Train, Russell, E., Ind. & as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Sherlock, William T., Individually and as Secretary of the Pa Dept. Of Transportation, Goddard, Maurice K., Individually and as Secretary of the Pa Dept. Of Environmental Resources, Snyder, Daniel J., Iii, Individually and as Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Region Iii. United States of America v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and William T. Sherlock, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources and Maurice K. Goddard, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources. Appeal of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ResourcesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1985
- Vecchione v. WohlgemuthDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1979
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