Legal Opinion
Giordano v. Connecticut Valley Hospital
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided December 3, 2008No. 3:07cv1444 (MRK)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
MARK R. KRAVITZ, District Judge.
In late September 2007, Plaintiffs — nine long-term residents of Connecticut Valley Hospital (“CVH”), a state-operated psychiatric facility — sued CVH, Thomas A. Kirk, Jr., the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (“DMHAS”), and Luis B. Perez, the Chief Executive Officer of CVH, seeking to enjoin them from implementing a complete ban against smoking and tobacco products scheduled to take effect on the CVH campus on October 1, 2007. 1 Plaintiffs, then proceeding pro se, alleged that the proposed…
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