WYATT EX REL. RAWLINS v. SAWYER

No. Civ.A. 70-T-3195-N.

80 F.Supp.2d 1275 (1999)

Ricky WYATT, By and Through his aunt and legal guardian Mrs. W.C. RAWLINS, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Kathy E. SAWYER, as Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and the State of Alabama Mental Health, Officer, et al., Defendants, United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

December 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira A. Burnim, Leonard S. Rubenstein, Linda V. Priebe, Washington, DC, James M. Lichtman, Ropes & Gray, Washington, DC, Fern Singer, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, James A. Tucker, Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, Kathryn H. Sumrall, Jackson, Garrison & Sumrall, Birmingham, AL, Allen Smith, Jr., Warm Springs, MT, Iris Eytan, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs.

Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, AL, Ricky J. McKinney, Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, Mary Elizabeth Culberson, Courtney Wayne Tarver, Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, Edward A. Hosp, Governor's Office, Montgomery, AL, Charles B. Campbell, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, James Darrington Hamlett, Devereaux & Associates, Montgomery, AL, June E. Lynn, G.R. (Rick) Trawick, Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, Bureau of Legal Services, Montgomery, AL, Gregory D. Crosslin, Clifton E. Slaten, Mindi C. Robinson, Crosslin, Slaten & O'Connor, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for defendants.

Kenneth E. Vines, U.S. Attorney's Office, Montgomery, AL, Bill Lann Lee, Robinsue Frohboese, Judith C. Preston, Tawana E. Davis, Robert C. Bowman, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, Washington, DC, for United States of America, amicus.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Currently before the court, in this longstanding challenge to conditions in the Alabama Mental Health and Mental Retardation System, are two motions. The first is the plaintiffs' motion, filed on November 18, 1999, for an order requiring the defendants to show cause why they should not be held in civil contempt for failing to comply with a number of requirements in the 1986 consent decree, including a number of `...

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