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MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Gregory v. Armistead

3:77-cv-00423 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Oct. 27, 1977

Closed Date: 1992

On October 27, 1977, Davis Gregory filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana against the Louisiana Health and Human Resources Administration. The lawsuit challenged the conditions of confinement at the East Feliciana Forensic Facility and was brought as a class action lawsuit. Attorneys Lawrence R. Anderson, Jr. of Seale, Smith, Zuber & Barnette, Clay J. Calhoun, Jr., and R. James Kellogg represented the plaintiffs. Because the com…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Brewster v. Dukakis

3:76-cv-04423 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 15, 1976

Closed Date: 1992

On December 15, 1976, residents of the Northampton State Hospital in Massachusetts filed a class action lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the State of Massachusetts in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants had violated their constitutional rights by failing to provide them with suitable treatment under the least restrictive conditions, by discriminating against them with respect to benefit allocation pursuant to federal statu…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Cameron v. Tomes

1:86-cv-03607 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Dec. 2, 1986

Closed Date: 1997

On December 2, 1986, an involuntarily committed patient at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous (the "Center") filed a lawsuit under state contract law against Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (DMH) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Boston Division. The plaintiff, represented at first by himself and later by private counsel, asked the court for injunctive relief, alleging that the defendants violated his federal constitutional right…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Williams v. Lesiak

1:72-cv-00571 | U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 1972

Closed Date: 1999

On February 15, 1972, Harold Williams and other residents at the Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons in Bridgewater, Massachusetts filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against the center alleging that the conditions of confinement and inadequacy of treatment programs violated their rights under the Fifth, Eight, and Fourteenth Amendments. Conditions included cells which lacked sinks or toilets, inadequate medical care, and a lack of a…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Bates v. Duby

Civ.A. CV-89-088 | Maine state trial court

Filed Date: Feb. 27, 1989

On February 27, 1989, patients at the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) filed a class action lawsuit under state law against the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services (the "Department"), the Department of Human Services (DHS), the Commissioner of DHS and the Superintendent of AMHI, in the Superior Court of Maine. The plaintiff, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging violations of rights resulting from inappropriate trea…
MENTAL HEALTH (FACILITY)
Davis v. Gintoli

3:73-00205 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Filed Date: May 23, 1973

Closed Date: Sept. 16, 1980

In 1973, a lawsuit challenging conditions at the Lima State Hospital (LSH) in Lima, Ohio, was filed against Ohio mental health officials in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. The plaintiffs, represented by the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, sought injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging numerous constitutional violations. The plaintiffs raised at least twenty-three separate claims, including minimum standards for physical and psychiatric care, individ…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Baldridge v. Clinton

4:83-cv-01004 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Filed Date: Nov. 22, 1983

Closed Date: 1991

On November 22, 1983, a lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against the Governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS), and its Division of Mental Health Services (MHS), Mental Health Board, Division of Developmental Disability Services (DDS), and Developmental Disability Service Board. On September 24,1984, the court certified the class, which it defined as all institutionalized persons in the custody of DHS now and…
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
CRIPA Investigation of Arizona State Hospital (ASH)

Not applicable | No Court

On September 25, 1989, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter to the Governor of Arizona, informing him of its intention to investigate conditions at Arizona State Hospital (ASH) pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997. DOJ subsequently toured ASH in November 1989 and again in January 1990.On December 14, 1990, DOJ sent a findings letter the Governor. In the findings letter, DOJ outlined three primary areas of deficiencies (use of bodily …
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (FACILITY)
Coffelt v. Dept. of Developmental Serv.

916401 | California state supreme court

Filed Date: March 1, 1990

On March 1, 1990, a class action lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities and against the State of California, the Department of Developmental Services, the Department of Finance, the San Andreas Regional Center, the Golden Gate Regional Center, the Regional Center of the East Bay, and the North Bay Regional Center. The plaintiffs, represented by Protection and Advocacy, Inc., sought declaratory …
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Conn. ARC v. Thorne

2:78-cv-00653 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: Dec. 6, 1978

Closed Date: 1998

In December 1978, the Connecticut Association of Retarded Citizens and twelve individuals filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. They sued the Commissioner of the Department of Mental Retardation (DMR), the Department of Income Maintenance (DIM) and the Department of Health Services (DHS) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The class action lawsuit challenged the quality of care, living conditions, and residential placement of individuals with intellectual d…