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Olmstead v. L.C. rules against people with disabilities being unnecessarily institutionalized.

1999

The Story of Disability Justice
DCRJ
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The case challenges Tommy Olmstead, the Commissioner of Georgia's Department of Human Resources, for the Georgia Regional Hospital's decision to keep two women with mental health disabilities in psychiatric isolation.

This U.S. Supreme Court case rules that the unnecessary institutionalization of people with disabilities violates the American Disability Act, and that failure to locate community-based placement is illegal discrimination.