Woe v. Cuomo

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the roster of defendants changes each time a state psychiatric facility loses or gains accreditation
• finding abuse of discretion where district court decertified the class after granting summary judgment in part
• emphasizing desirability of retaining class format if possible after original certification and noting array of procedural devices available to Court to deal flexibly with practical problems
• finding treatment inadequate under the professional judgment standard where a psychiatric center had lost its Department of Health and Human Services certification
• court certified class of persons “who are or who will be involuntarily civilly committed to New York State mental institutions.”
• “[I]t is an extreme step to dismiss a suit simply by decertifying a class, where a potentially proper class exists and can easily be created.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).