Legal Opinion
L.C. Ex Rel. Zimring v. Olmstead
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 8, 1998No. 97-8538PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
Tommy Olmstead, Richard Fields, and Eamestine Pittman, (collectively ■ “the State”), defendants in the district court, appeal an adverse summary judgment granting declaratory and injunctive relief to plaintiffs L.C. and E.W., 1 two patients then-housed in a state psychiatric hospital. 2 In May 1995, L.C. filed this action challenging her continued confinement at the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta (“GRH-A”), a psychiatric hospital where persons with mental disabilities are eared for in a segregated environment. The State’s failure to provide her with care in the…
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