Legal Opinion
Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 11, 1974No. Civ. A. 73-162PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
I. Preliminary Statement
This is a civil rights case, arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. It 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 satisfaction of the cost of…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Stanley v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Fuentes v. ShevinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Dandridge v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Fayle v. StapleyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- Fayle v. StapleyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1979
- Vecchione v. WohlgemuthCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1977
- Allison v. PattersonWashington Supreme Court · 1978
- Vecchione v. WohlgemuthDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1979
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