Legal Opinion
Wyatt Ex Rel. Rawlins v. Sawyer
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided December 13, 1999No. Civ.A. 70-T-3195-NPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
Currently before the court, in this longstanding challenge to conditions in the Alabama Mental Health and Mental Retardation System, are two motions. The first is the plaintiffs’ motion, filed on November 18, 1999, for an order requiring the defendants to show cause why they should not be held in civil contempt for failing to comply with a number of requirements in the 1986 consent decree, including a number of ‘Wyatt standards’ for mental illness and mental retardation. In support of this motion, the plaintiffs have filed a memorandum that both explains…
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