Legal Opinion
Estate of Martin v. California Department of Veterans Affairs
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2009No. 06-16850PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge GRABER; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge PREGERSON
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, the Estate of Dorothy Martin and Mary Martin, Dorothy’s daughter, claim that Defendants the California Department of Veterans Affairs (“Department”) and its officers and administrators illegally denied Dorothy Martin admission to the Veterans’ Home of California (“Home”) because of a disability, specifically, Alzheimer’s disease and Azheimer’s-related dementia. The district court granted judgment as a matter of law to Defendants on some of Plaintiffs’ claims, and a jury…
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