Marlon K. Jackson v. State of Mississippi

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “civil rights cases against parties charged with unlawful, class-based discrimination . . . [are] prime examples of what [Rule 23](b)(2) is meant to capture.”
• seeing sufficient commonality where \common proof will establish whether the District's plan is 'comprehensive' and 'effectively working' \
• analogizing to DL and concluding that plaintiffs in Thorpe satisfied commonality requirement because plaintiffs alleged that the District had a deficient policy that violated ADA
• “[T]reating individuals in institutions when they wish to and could be treated in the community is discrimination because of disability.”
• finding (b)(2) satisfied where plaintiffs requested an injunction 78 requiring defendants to “[e]nsure sufficient capacity of community-based long-term care services . . . as measured by enrollment in these long-term care programs”
• finding (b)(2) satisfied where plaintiffs requested an 77 injunction requiring defendants to “[s]uccessfully transition Plaintiffs from nursing facilities to the community” pursuant to a schedule mandating a certain number of transfers each year

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).