Health Care & Hospital Law
Oct. 25, 2014
Court should affirm 9th Circuit on crisis intervention policing
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to review a holding that police must take reasonable steps under the ADA to accommodate people with mental illness when effectuating arrests. By Michael W. Bien and Lisa Ells
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to review the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' Feb. 21 decision in Sheehan v. City and County of San Francisco, 743 F.3d 1211 (9th Cir. 2014), which, in relevant part, followed three other circuits in holding that police must take reasonable steps under the Americans with Disabilities Act to accommodate people with disabilities, including mental illness, ...
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