State Ex Rel. Cottrill v. Meigs County Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities

Grey, Judge.

This is an appeal from the Common Pleas Court of Meigs County. The court granted an injunction ordering the Meigs County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (“MRDD”) to provide adequate physical and speech therapy for adults using the board’s services and to continue the community work program for adults using MRDD’s services. The court also granted mandamus requiring the Ohio State Board of Retardation to pay the shortfall for board. We affirm.

Cottrill, Rhoades, and Carleton, developmentally disabled citizens, are clients who use the facilities of MRDD. The…