- Incident
- Application of the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act to State Institutionalization of Patients with Severe Mental Illness or Disabilities
- Location
- Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel · US
- Date of the incident
- not in the record
- Decided
- 2026-06-18
- Authority
- Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel
- Law involved
- 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq.
- Court case
- No.
- Outcome
- Not extracted — read the opinion.
- Remedy
- —
- Status
- Decision to review — the outcome is in the opinion
(Slip Opinion) Application of the Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disabilities Act to State Institutionalization of Patients with Severe Mental Illness or Disabilities In prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability, neither section 504 of the Rehabili- tation Act nor Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) imposed an inte- gration mandate on states in their treatment of mentally disabled individuals. Nor does either statute authorize the
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project)
A decision engaging a human-rights claim is not, by itself, a finding that a right was violated.