United States Ninth Circuit

Defendants were properly enjoined from closing the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center without continuing to provide medically necessary services to disabled individuals elsewhere. The services plaintiffs would lose with Rancho's closure fall within the scope of care the county must provide to plaintiffs consistent with the ADA.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/01/2003
• Decided 02/05/2004
• Published 02/05/2004

Judges

• Before PREGERSON, COWEN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer A. Chmura, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-appellee Diana Bonta.  Timothy T. Coates, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellants County of Los Angeles and Thomas L. Garthwaite., Jeffrey S. Davidson, (argued), Christopher J. Heck, Joseph M. Graham, Jr., Tony Richardson, Kirkland & Ellis, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees;  Melinda Bird, Marilyn Holle, Maria F. Iriarte, Protection and Advocacy, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Eve Hill, Paula D. Pearlman, Felicia Yearwood, Western Law Center for Disability Rights, Los Angeles, CA, Robert Newman, Kimberly Lewis, Western Center on Law and Poverty, Los Angeles, CA, Gerald A. McIntyre, National Senior Citizen's Law Center, Los Angeles, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.