Legal Opinion
Wyatt Ex Rel. Rawlins v. Rogers
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 1996No. 95-6637, 95-6875PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:
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This ease began on October 23,1970, when patients at Bryce Hospital, a state-run institution for the mentally ill in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama against the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental 'Health and Mental Retardation (“DMH/MR”), the members of the Alabama . Mental Health Board, the governor of Alabama, and Alabama’s probate judges. 1 These patients alleged that the conditions at Bryce Hospital were such that they had been deprived of their rights under…
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