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Advocacy organizations for autistic and disabled people paid close attention to the trial, including Autism Speaks and the Arc of Northern Virginia. In news reports, several parents of autistic teens stated that their child could have reacted the same way in Latson's place. More than 50 people wrote letters to the judge asking for leniency in ...
Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 6–3 that executing people with intellectual disabilities violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments, but that states can define who has an intellectual disability.
The Court found that mentally retarded persons are not a 'suspect' class of persons (requiring the same level of protection as racial minorities); thus, governments are free to enact almost any legislation or rule to civilly commit them, and the courts will not intervene, short of illegal or ridiculous actions (called 'rational' scrutiny). [4] 14th
The outing was a part of community-based instruction programs that serve students with autism and significant cognitive disabilities at the Charles County Public Schools District's Dr. James Craik ...
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Greene County Circuit Court records show that a judge dismissed the case against Chris Chan on August 8, 2023. The dismissal came after attorneys for Chandler filed a motion for an autism disorder ...
[6] [1] The three generations of the Buck family and Carrie's impending sterilization became the focus of the landmark supreme court case Buck v. Bell. Priddy died before the case reached the Supreme Court, but nonetheless on May 2, 1927, the Supreme Court decided that Virginia's sterilization law was constitutional. [7] [8]
Kelly Masten’s family called 911 when the 38-year-old woman with the mind of a child was upset, hoping for medical help. Instead, Masten was jailed for 11 days and ended up in a coma in the ICU.