Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit March 29, 1978, No. 653, Docket 77-6047 (Koe v. Califano)

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This troubling lawsuit was brought by four aged and severely ill mental patients, involuntarily committed to Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood, New York, against the Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), a Regional Commissioner of that Department and the United States.