News and Alerts

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Updates on Advocacy, Litigation, and Educational Initiatives

The Marsters v. Healey Settlement Agreement is now in year two of implementation. On November 10th, CPR, its co-counsel, and state officials met for the 5th quarterly meeting required by the Agreement. The Commonwealth reported on data for the first year and quarter one of year two.

The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Commission on Law and Aging dedicated its 2025 National Aging and Law Conference to “Fostering Stability in Aging”. 

On October 20, 2025, CPR submitted comments to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), urging it to reject the request to impose a proof citizenship requirement for people registering to vote.

Updates on Litigation, Initiatives, and Staff

CPR’s work nationally, and in Massachusetts, continues to focus on expanding the legal rights of people with disabilities to make choices in their own lives, including the right of persons subject to guardianship and conservatorship proceedings to choose, retain and, in appropriate circumstances, discharge their own counsel. 

The Bringing People Home initiative includes the named plaintiffs, their families and supporters, the Dignity Alliance, and six workgroups (ASAPs, Independent Living Centers, families and guardians, attorneys and advocates, behavioral providers, and cultural competency advocates) that assist in monitoring implementation of the Agreement.  

The Trump administration is attempting to eliminate important civil rights protections contained in federal regulations, and CPR is working to push back and delay these efforts by drafting, and joining allied groups’, comments in response to proposed regulatory changes.

On June 17, 2025, Judge Orlando Garcia issued a landmark decision, finding that the State of Texas violated the rights of thousands of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Texas nursing facilities.  He ordered the parties to submit proposed remedial orders by August 1, 2025.