Medicare & Medicaid Guide P 45,581 Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. v. Joseph Leean

POSNER, Chief Judge.

This is a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a nonprofit corporation that operates a residential facility for the mentally retarded in Wisconsin, by three current residents of the facility, and by four prospective residents from out of state. The defendants, state and local Wisconsin officials and a local government, are charged with violating these retarded persons’ federal constitutional right to travel, and some of their federal statutory rights as well, by enforcing certain state laws and federal Medicaid regulations. In a series of judgments, one rendered after a trial on…