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NAMI Legal Letter

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The NAMI Legal Center publishes our Legal Letter twice a year. The Legal Letter is designed to provide attorneys and other interested persons with substantive information on legal issues that relate to persons with severe mental illness. The following are past issues of the NAMI Legal Letter available on-line:

New: NAMI Legal Letter, Spring 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
In Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format

• Introduction
• The Supplemental/Special Needs Trust
• On the Basis of Unwarranted Assumptions: Mistreatment of Individuals with Mental Illnesses in Massachusetts
• Supreme Court Limits Rights Under ADA

CASENOTES:
• Arkansas Court of Appeals Reverses and Remands Summary Judgment Decision in Favor of Insurer in Long-term Disability Case
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Dispenses with Requirement that Mother with Mental Illness Provide Parental Consent for Adoption of Daughter
• Connecticut State Court Denies Defense's Motion for Summary Judgment in Duty-to-Warn Case
• Court Finds School Board Violated IDEA by Failing to Provide Student with Autism with Free Appropriate Public Education

NAMI Legal Letter, Summer 2000 (Vol. 1, No. 2)

• Introduction
• The Tragedy of Custody Relinquishment
• The Disenfranchisement of Persons with Mental Illness
  CASENOTES:
  
• Class Action Settled in Alabama after 30 years
• Olmstead Decision Applied in Pennsylvania Settlement
• Indiana Supreme Court Orders Instructions on Consequences of Insanity Verdict
• Court Rules Against County Seeking Reimbursement for Support Costs of Child in Residential Facility
• Failure to Seek Medical Care for Life Threatening Condition Justifies Involuntary Commitment, Minnesota Court Holds

NAMI Legal Letter, (Volume 1, No. 1)

• Introduction
• Weston Case Raises Legal Questions Over Forced Medication
• Supreme Court Recognizes ADA Right to Community Placement
• Supreme Court Decisions Could Limit ADA Protections
• Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Services for Student with Disability
  CASENOTES:
  
• Supreme Court Decisions Could Limit ADA Protections
• Therapists' Duty to Warn Endorsed By Pennsylvania High Court
• Illinois Court Holds That Suicide Can Be Raised As Contributory Negligence Defense in Wrongful Death Suits Against Physicians
• Insurance Company Ruled in Violation of ADA
• Indefinite Leave Not a "Reasonable Accommodation" Under ADA

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