Legal Opinion
Society for Good Will to Retarded Children v. Cuomo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 27, 1987No. 78-CV-1847 (JBW)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
WEINSTEIN, Chief Judge.
I. HISTORY OF PROCEEDINGS
A class action was commenced in 1978 by the Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc., the parents’ organization at Suffolk Developmental Center (the Center), and by thirteen mentally retarded individuals on behalf of themselves and more than 1,500 other persons then in residence at, or on the rolls of, the Center. Plaintiffs sought, on various federal constitutional and state and federal statutory grounds, (1) the improvement of conditions at the Center, (2) the expansion of community resources and support services in…
2Cases cited61 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
- His Excellency, Vincente Cuesnongle, O.P. v. Hector R. Ramos, Secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs of the Commonwealth of Puerto RicoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc., Cross-Appellants v. Mario M. Cuomo, as Governor of the State of New York, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1990
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