Litigation Updates

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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.

Updates on Advocacy, Litigation, and Educational Initiatives

Updates on Litigation, Initiatives, and Staff

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.

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.  

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.

On August 7, APM published an article titled “‘We did not want to take this guy’: Abuse rates higher at nursing homes with more mental illness,” which highlights the systemic challenges faced by people with disabilities—particularly those with serious mental illness—when institutionalized in nursing facilities.

On July 24, 2025, CPR and the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) filed a friend of the court brief in support of litigation challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Final Rule titled “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability” (June 25, 2025).