Institutionalizing Children

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The 11th Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/children.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a> that the U.S. Attorney General has standing to sue Florida under the Americans with Disabilities Act for that state’s enforcement of a policy that unnecessarily institutionalized “hundreds of children with disabilities in nursing facilities.”</span>

ATLANTA – The 11th Circuit ruled that the U.S. Attorney General has standing to sue Florida under the Americans with Disabilities Act for that state’s enforcement of a policy that unnecessarily institutionalized “hundreds of children with disabilities in nursing facilities.”

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