Legal Opinion
Bell v. Thornburgh
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 22, 1980No. 80-2-283 and 80-2-296PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
LARSEN, Justice.
This is an appeal from a preliminary injunction issued by the President Judge of the Commonwealth Court (sitting as a Chancellor in equity) which, among other things, 1 prohibited the Commonwealth from proceeding with its plans to close Retreat State Hospital (“Retreat”) and prohibited the transfer of Retreat’s patients to other state facilities. For the reasons stated below, we reverse that order and dissolve the injunction.
Appellants are the Governor, the Commonwealth, the Department of General Services and the Secretary of that Department, the Department…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by35 opinions
- Shenango Valley Osteopathic Hospital v. Department of Health of CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
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