POE v. LYNCHBURG TRAINING SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL

Civ. A. No. 80-0172.

518 F.Supp. 789 (1981)

James POE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. LYNCHBURG TRAINING SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Virginia, Lynchburg Division.

April 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick M. Raher, Hogan & Hartson, Alexandria, Va., Alexander W. Bell, Bell & Spies, Lynchburg, Va., Peter Raven-Hansen, National Law Center, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, Richmond, Va., for plaintiffs.

Robert T. Adams, Mary Yancey Spencer, Asst. Attys. Gen., Richmond, Va., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

TURK, Chief Judge.

This case is filed as an individual and class action suit challenging the involuntary sterilization of a number of men and women by Virginia state officials acting pursuant to a statute enacted in 1924 by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The complaint also challenges the constitutionality of the purported refusal of appropriate Virginia state officials to notify all those persons who received such surgery as to their medical...

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