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"3rd Circuit Recognizes New Cause of Action for Civil Rights Violations at Nursing Homes"

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"3rd Circuit Recognizes New Cause of Action for Civil Rights Violations at Nursing Homes": Today in The Legal Intelligencer -- Philadelphia's daily newspaper for lawyers -- Shannon P. Duffy has an article that begins, "In a landmark opinion that recognizes a new category of lawsuits, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Federal Nursing Home Reform Amendments give residents of county-run nursing homes the right to bring civil rights claims under Section 1983 to challenge the quality of their treatment."

You can access yesterday's ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).

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