Alber v. Illinois Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Illinois would not recognize a general right of family members to recover for the loss of society
• holding that care givers who are not legal guardians may still have privacy rights based on their relationship to dependents
• holding that care givers who are not legal guardians may still have privacy rights based on their relationship to dependents
• discussing service of process requirements and in forma pauperis status for cases filed in state court and removed to federal court before all defendants are served
• tolling the limitations period because the plaintiffs’ low I.Q. and significant intellectual impairments rendered them “totally and functionally incapable of making any voluntary or informed decisions about their personal care, treatment or custody”
• plaintiff alleged that defendants had violated their constitutional rights, among others, by twice removing two developmentally disabled adults, whom plaintiffs had adopted, from their home without their consent and confining them to institutions that provided legally inadequate care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).