Legal Opinion
New York State Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. Carey
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 31, 1983No. Nos. 305, 821, Dockets 82-7441, 82-7591PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
The present appeal and a companion case, Docket No. 82-7531, are the latest in a long series of decisions1 spawned by a complaint filed on March 17, 1972, by the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc. (NYSARC), other voluntary organizations, and individual mentally retarded persons on behalf of a class of mentally retarded children and adults residing at what was then Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded and is now Staten Island Developmental Center (Willowbrook), alleging that inhuman conditions there violated constitutional rights…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. HaldermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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- Swift & Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
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3Cited by82 opinions
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