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Court: Time For Florida to Stop Needlessly Institutionalizing Disabled Kids

Last Friday, the federal court for Florida’s Southern District issued a groundbreaking ruling: that the state had violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily institutionalizing children with complex health needs, placing them in nursing homes instead of providing community health services. As an outcome of the ruling, which follows a two-week trial in May, […]

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