Government,
Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nov. 14, 2018
9th Circuit takes up decades-old mentally ill prisoners case
Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging the state’s negligence in providing access to mental health care to prisoners who needed it amounted to a violation of their Eighth Amendment rights.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals confronted ongoing discrepancies Tuesday between state agents and a class of prisoners suffering from serious mental disorders in a decades-old case governing their care.
Attorneys from Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP are representing the class, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1991 alleging the state's negligence in providing access to mental health care to prisoners who needed it amounted ...
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