Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William F. Amideo, Office of the State Atty. Gen., Atlanta, GA, Patricia Downing, Atlanta, GA, Jefferson James Davis, Decatur, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.
Susan C. Jamieson, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Decatur, GA, Steven D. Caley, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
Marie K. McElderry, USDOJ, Washington, DC, for Amicus: U.S.A.
Michele Arington, Howrey & Simon, Lois G. Williams, Washington, DC, for Amicus: American Assoc. of Mental Retardation.
Ellen M. Saideman, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Amicus: Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, et al.
Before TJOFLAT and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and PROPST, Senior District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
BARKETT, Circuit Judge:
Tommy Olmstead, Richard Fields, and Earnestine Pittman, (collectively "the State"), defendants in the district court, appeal an adverse summary judgment granting declaratory and injunctive relief to plaintiffs L.C. and E.W.,1 two patients then-housed in a state psychiatric hospital.2 In May 1995, L.C. filed this action challenging her continued confinement at the Georgia Regional Hospital...
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