Temporary restraining order for the Alliance for the Liberation of Mental Patients against John K. Fong, et al.

Item Information

Title:
Temporary restraining order for the Alliance for the Liberation of Mental Patients against John K. Fong, et al.
Description:
Includes declarations from Alliance for the Liberation of Mental Patients members Diane W. Baran, Lynn Sereda, Lenny Lapon, Robert Harris, and Veronica Sussman in which they describe their attempts to distribute literature on patients' rights at Haverford State Hospital, for which they were arrested for trespassing despite coming to meet with patients on public hospital property. The arrests were seen as violations of the First Amendment rights of the members of the Alliance.
Creator:
United States. District Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Date:
April 22, 1979
Format:
Documents
Manuscripts
Genre:
Legal documents
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 1 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Judi Chamberlin Papers
Subjects:
Patient advocacy
Restraining orders
Psychiatric survivors movement
Extent:
23 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums768-b001-f003-i005
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums768-b001-f003-i005