ALA. DISAB. ADV. v. J.S. TARWATER DEVELOP. CENTER

No. 95-6584.

97 F.3d 492 (1996)

ALABAMA DISABILITIES ADVOCACY PROGRAM, the Statewide Protection and Advocacy System Organized in Accordance with Public Laws 100-146 and 99-139, on behalf of Persons Labeled Developmentally Disabled or Mentally Ill, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. J.S. TARWATER DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER, an Alabama Institution for People with Mental Retardation, Organized and Operated Under the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; Levi Harris, Director of J.S. Tarwater Developmental Center; Custodian of Records of J.S. Tarwater Developmental Center; Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, an Alabama Governmental Agency; Virginia Rogers, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; Billy Ray Stokes, Associate Commissioner for Mental Health, Retardation, Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation; Custodian of Records of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 10, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.R. Trawick, Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Montgomery, AL, for Appellants.

Victoria A. Farr, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, William F. Addison, Addison, Vickers, Howell & Talkington, Montgomery, AL, for Appellee.

Before EDMONDSON and DUBINA, Circuit Judges, and FARRIS, Senior Circuit Judge.


DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

The Defendants-Appellants J.S. Tarwater Developmental Center ("Tarwater"), et al. (collectively, "the Defendants") appeal the district court's judgment in favor of the Plaintiff-Appellee Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program ("the Advocacy Program"), which enjoined and restrained the Defendants from failing to release to the Advocacy Program the medical records of two former Tarwater residents. Our review of the record, the district court's...

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