Atkins v. County of Orange.

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U.S. District Court

MENTALLY ILL

Atkins v. County of Orange, 251 F.Supp.2d 1225 (S.D.N.Y. 2003). Mentally ill county jail inmates brought an action alleging violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment, [section] 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Rehabilitation Act. The district court dismissed the action. The court held that ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims must be dismissed because the inmates failed to allege that they were denied benefits of services, program or activity of the jail when they were placed in keeplock isolation, or that violent and self-destructive inmates suffering from mental illness were treated any differently than violent and...

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