Society for Good Will to Retarded Children, Inc. v. Cuomo

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Youngberg standard was appropriate to analyze whether students at state operated school for the mentally retarded were deprived of their right to freedom from undue bodily restraint
• district court’s finding of inadequate medical care at facility was clearly erroneous; “Isolated instances of inadequate care, or even of malpractice, do not demonstrate a constitutional violation.”
• “ ‘[Professional judgment’ has nothing to do with what course of action would make patients ‘safer, happier and more productive.’ Rather, it is a standard that determines whether a particular decision has substantially met professionally accepted minimum standards.”
• “Injunctive relief should be narrowly tailored to fit the specific legal violations.”
• “[A]nyone in a state institution has a right to safe conditions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).