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D.C. AG and Federal Judge Go at It Over Old Case

By Eric Lipman

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In a courtroom scene that sounds like it might have been worthy of prime time air (and, unless these yahoos prevail, it sounds like there should be a slot open sometime soon), District of Columbia Attorney General Peter Nickles and U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle traded barbs yesterday at a hearing on the District's most recent attempt to get out from under a 32-year-old consent decree in a class action brought on behalf of residents of Forest Haven, a now-shuttered institution for people with developmental disabilities. Yesterday morning, the court released an opinion (PDF) denying the District's motion to vacate the consent order, which subjects the District's treatment of mentally disabled citizens to continuing judicial scrutiny, and dismiss the case. The afternoon hearing, at which Huvelle had ordered Nickles to appear, was focused on the District's proposed "exit plan" for the litigation, which would end court supervision within nine months. Huvelle had taken a shot at the District for the timing of its exit plan submission in a footnote of the opinion. But in court, she apparently really let him have it. From Jordan Weissman's article, posted on The Blog of Legal Times: Huvelle seemed affronted by the document. She...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).