Legal Opinion
Wyatt v. Stickney
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided June 2, 1972No. Civ. A. 3195-NPublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND DECREE
JOHNSON, Chief Judge.
This litigation originally pertained only to Alabama’s mentally ill, 1 but by motion to amend granted August 12, 1971, plaintiffs have expanded their class to include residents of Partlow State School and Hospital, a public institution located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, designed to habilitate the mentally retarded. 2 In their amended complaint, plaintiffs have alleged that Partlow is being operated in a constitutionally impermissible fashion and that, as a result, its residents are denied the right to adequate habilitation. Relying on these allegations,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Vaughan v. AtkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Johnnie Ray Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Wyatt v. StickneyDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1971
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3Cited by111 opinions
- D'AMICO v. Board of Medical ExaminersCalifornia Supreme Court · 1974
- Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los AngelesCalifornia Supreme Court · 1979
- Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Battle v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1977
- Wyatt v. AderholtCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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