Burnham v. Department of Public Health

Full title: A. J. BURNHAM, EDITH SUMMERHALL, CHRISTOPHER C. NELSON, WILLIAM J. KELLY…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Date published: Nov 8, 1974

503 F.2d 1319 (5th Cir. 1974)

Opinion

No. 72-3110.

November 8, 1974.

Thomas H. Harper, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Jack Drake, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Edward Lynch, Washington, D.C., for President's Committee on Mental Retardation.

Charles Halpern, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae, for Mental Health Law Project.

James E. Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey D. Bauman, Stanley Herr, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae, for NLADA National Law Office.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia; Sidney O. Smith, Jr., Chief Judge.

Before WISDOM, BELL and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The decision of the district court is reversed on the authority of our decisions in Donaldson v. O'Connor, 5 Cir. 1974, 493 F.2d 507, and Wyatt v. Aderholt, 5 Cir. 1974, 503 F.2d 1305. The case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the principles announced in those decisions.

Reversed and remanded.