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WILLIAMS v. QUINN

No. 05 C 4673.

748 F.Supp.2d 892 (2010)

Ethel WILLIAMS, Jan Wrightsell, Edward Brandon, and Gilbert Parham, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Pat QUINN, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, Michelle R.B. Sandler, in her official capacity as Secretary of the Illinois Department of Human Services, Lorrie Rickman-Jones, in her official capacity as Director of the Division of Mental Health of the Illinois Department of Human Services, Damon T. Arnold, in his official capacity as Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, and Barry S. Maram, in his official capacity as Director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

September 29, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Michael Russell , Angela Dickson Marston , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Amy F. Peterson , John Warren Whitcomb , Laura J. Miller , Equip for Equality, Benjamin S. Wolf , Kendra Nicole Thompson , Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., Edward B. Mullen, III , Kenneth M. Walden , Access Living , Lori Nicole Turner , ACLU of Illinois, Tonya Gentry Newman , William Choslovsky , Steven F. Pflaum , Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, IL, Ira Abraham Burnim , Jennifer Mathis , Karen B. Bower , Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

Edward Brandon , pro se.

Thomas A. Ioppolo , Karen Elaine Konieczny , Christopher Samuel Gange , Illinois Attorney General's Office, Brent Douglas Stratton , Peter Chadwell Koch , Office of the Attorney General, Vihar R. Patel , Enterprise Law Group, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM T. HART, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This class action concerns the State of Illinois's alleged duty under the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101(a)(2), 12101(a)(5), 12132, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794(a), to provide persons with mental illnesses who reside in privately owned Institutions for Mental Diseases ("IMD") the opportunity to...

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