United States Seventh Circuit

The district court erred when it required defendant-City, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, to issue a special-use permit for a new outpatient mental health clinic that plaintiffs were trying to establish.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/18/2006
• Decided 06/29/2005
• Published 06/29/2005

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and BAUER, POSNER, EASTERBROOK, RIPPLE, MANION, KANNE, ROVNER, WOOD, EVANS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Damian Ortiz, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center, Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae, John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Legal Support Center., Gregory B. Friel, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, U.S.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Theine Pledl (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Jan A. Smokowicz (argued), Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.