United States Second Circuit

The ADA and the Rehabilitation Act ("Acts") make states liable for the failure of their delegates to comply with requirements of the Acts. Injunctive relief to remedy a violation of the Acts is appropriate if it provides the injured plaintiff with "meaningful access" to the programs or services to which the plaintiff is facially entitled.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2003
• Published 06/09/2003

Judges

• KATZMANN, Circuit Judge., Before:  MESKILL, SACK, and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jessica Dunsany Silver, Seth M. Galanter, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appellate Section-PHB, Washington, DC, on behalf of Amicus Curiae the United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Susan J. Kohlmann (Karen B. Dine, David Oakland, Carolina A. Fornos, Heather Bridgid Conoboy, on the brief), Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, New York, New York;  Victoria Neilson, HIV Law Project, New York, NY;  Armen H. Merjian, Jennifer Sinton, Virginia Shubert, Housing Works, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees., Edward F.X. Hart, Assistant Corporation Counsel (Leonard Koerner, Georgia M. Pestana, on the brief), for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, New York, on behalf of Defendants-Appellants Rudolph Giuliani and Marva Hammons., Vincent Leong, Assistant Attorney General (Michael S. Belohlavek, Deputy Solicitor General, Deon Nossel, Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, New York, on behalf of Defendant-Appellant Marva E. Glass.