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Litigation and Consulting Services
A complete set of pleadings in Rosie D. is available on our Rosie D Website.
To browse pleadings, articles, and other materials prepared by CPR staff, click on a category to left and follow the links.
The Center for Public Representation offers a variety of litigation and consulting services;
The Center has launched an innovative new initiative, Effective Expert Evidence, which is designed to assist Protection and Advocacy, legal services and other public interest lawyers.
Litigation and Systemic Advocacy Project
The Center has initiated a Litigation and Systemic Advocacy Project to provide co-counseling, assistance, and support to Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agencies across the country. Staff are particularly interested in juvenile and criminal justice disability matters, emergency department interactions with persons with mental illness, home based services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances, institutional conditions and restraint and seclusion reform.
CPR staff are available to design and present training seminars and programs on a variety of disability related subjects. A sample of an outline of a training on ethnic psychopharmacology can be viewed by following the link directly above.
Litigation Support
Documents and pleadings which may be helpful to attorneys litigating or considering the litigation of disability law related cases are available by following the links below or, for a more extensive collection of documents, follw the links from the categories on the left side of this page.
These documents do not constitute legal advice. Anyone engaged in legal action should consult with an attorney. Attorneys should make their own independent judgments. Local laws vary and the law may have changed since these documents were written. Litigants should fully research any claims or defenses before making them.
Recent Documents: | |||
CPR's comments on the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health's Final Report of the Task Force on Safety and Risk Management. | |||
A new monograph explaining the complex rules regarding restraint and seclusion of children and adolescents in Massachusetts. Added October 2007. | |||
New Rosie D. documents, including the court's Judgment, the Defendants' First Report, and the Plaintiffs' comments were posted on July 23, 2007 and can be seen by clicking here and scrolling down the page. | |||
A complaint alleging that Massachusetts residents with brain injuries are being kept needlessly in nursing home because of the lack of community services case can be viewed by clicking here and scrolling down the page. | |||
Recent filings and documents in the long-closed case Ricci v. Okin in response to efforts by some plaintiffs to prevent the Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Retardation from closing the Fernald Developmental Center can be viewed by clicking here and scrolling down the page. | |||
Woman sues hospital for strip-search -- complaint | 8/4/2006 | ||
The Center for Public Representation, the Bazelon Center and Campbell, Campbell & Edward have sued Beth-Isreal Hospital on behalf of a woman who was strip searched when she appeared at the hospital ER for treatment of a migraine. The plaintiff had been a patient in the mental health unit in the past. | |||
Legal Services Programs in Massachusetts | 4/26/2006 | ||
Statewide legal services website with information and links to local programs and to on-line legal help. | |||
