Atkins v. County of Orange

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that, while plaintiffs’ recovery might have an effect on others’ interests, “we do not think such an effect would be of any greater value to the public than any other award to civil rights plaintiffs”
• dismissing claims where plaintiff was “in essence challenging the adequacy of the mental health services provided at the Jail, not illegal disability discrimination”
• declining to find disparate treatment where “[p]laintiffs d[id] not allege that the mentally disabled [we]re the only prisoners subjected to this procedure while the non-mentally disabled prisoners [we]re excluded”
• finding there to be no claim under the ADA or Rehabilitation Act where Plaintiff is “in essence challenging the adequacy of the mental health services provided . . . not illegal disability discrimination”
• “With no allegation of disparate treatment, no claim for discrimination under the ADA . . . lies.”
• “Plaintiffs do not allege that the mentally disabled are the only prisoners subjected to [keeplock isolation] while the non-mentally disabled prisoners are excluded therefrom.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).