On December 12, 1986, adult patients with intellectual disabilities at the Creedmoor and South Beach Psychiatric Centers filed a lawsuit through their guardians in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), challenging their continued confinement. Plaintiffs' complaint, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleged that plaintiffs all suffered from intellectual disabilities and were being denied proper care and treatment because of their continued confinement in state psychiatric centers which had no appropriate programs for persons with intellectual disabilities. Defendants included the state of New York and officials from the New York State Office of Mental Health ("OMH") and State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities ("OMRDD"). Plaintiffs were represented by the New York Lawyers For The Public Interest, Inc. They sought injunctive relief in the form of immediate transfers to a proper care.

Our case information is limited to the complaint and PACER docket. According to the docket (only contains entries for 1/93 to 3/94), the District Court (Judge Edward R. Korman) entered a stipulation of settlement on October 6, 1993. A subsequent stipulation for settlement as to the issue of attorneys' fees was entered on March 1, 1994. The State agreed to pay fees and costs to plaintiffs in the amount of resolving attorneys' fees $96,000.

We have no further information on this case.

Dan Dalton - 04/14/2007


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