Legal Opinion
Tennessee Protection & Advocacy, Inc. v. Jon A. Wells, Esquire Ronald Bruce Arrison and King's Daughters & Sons Nursing Home, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 9, 2004No. 02-6221PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAUGHTREY, J. (pp. 352-53), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
BOGGS, Chief Judge.
Tennessee Protection & Advocacy, Inc. (TP & A) is a federally-mandated independent non-profit agency that investigates allegations of abuse against the disabled. It appeals the district court’s holding that one of its clients, Martin Earle Bentley, is not covered under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (DD Act), and that therefore TP & A has no statutory authority to obtain Bentley’s records without the permission of his court-appointed conservator. We hold that the…
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