Williams v. Quinn

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM T. HART, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This class action concerns the State of Illinois’s alleged duty under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101(a)(2), 12101(a)(5), 12132, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794(a), to provide persons with mental illnesses who reside in privately owned Institutions for Mental Diseases (“IMD”) the opportunity to be placed in an integrated community setting. See generally Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581, 119 S.Ct. 2176, 144 L.Ed.2d 540 (1999). The defendants in this case, all sued in their…