Adult Homes and Mental Health

Judge Orders NY to Move Mentally Ill Out of Large, Institutional Housing by A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times (3/1/10)

State’s Homes for Mentally Ill Adults Violate ADA, Judge Rules by Mark Fass, New York Law Journal (9/9/2009)

State Discriminated Against Mentally Ill, Judge Rules by James Barron, The New York Times (9/9/2009)

Suit Proceeds Over N.Y. Policies For Housing the Mentally Ill by Mark Fass, New York Law Journal (2/23/2009)

Adult home residents are suing for more phones by Frank Donnelly, Staten Island Advance (12/5/2007)

Adult home ‘headhunter’ to pay fine in scam by Veronika Belenkaya, Daily News (2/4/2008)

Shameful Home Must Pay by Rachel Monahan, New York Daily News (12/29/2006)

Ex-Operators in Adult Home Are Barred in Settlement by Russ Buettner, New York Times (12/29/2006)

State Settles with Operators of Brooklyn Adult Home – Press Release – Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (12/28/06)

“Headhunter” And Adult Home Sued For Discrepancies by Charles Rogers, Canarsie Courier (10/26/2006)

Medicaid Fraud Alleged: Patients Urge Probe of Clinic by Rachel Monahan, New York Daily News (10/24/2006)

A Trail of Trouble: Owner of Shuttered Adult Home Sued at 2nd Facility by Rachel Monahan, New York Daily News (10/20/2006)

Abuse at Adult Home: Suit by Rachel Monahan, New York Daily News (10/17/2006)

Brooklyn Home in Crash Horror Has History of Scandal by William Sherman, New York Daily News (7/14/2006)

Judge Postpones Closing of Group Home, New York Times (7/1/00)

Mentally Disabled on Hold: Lawsuit Demands Better Access to Low-Cost Phone Service by K. Angelova, City Limits (3/13/2006)

Group Home Where Man Died in Fire Was Closed to New Arrivals, New York Times (5/10/05)

Mentally Ill Gain Legal Voice by Thomas Adcock, New York Law Journal (10/15/04)

Group Home Residents File Suit, Newsday (9/23/04)

Queens Home For Mentally Ill Settles Lawsuit For $7 Million by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (8/5/04)

Suit Says State Is Segregating Mentally Ill by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (7/1/03)

Support Groups for Mentally Ill Suite MTA Over Half-Fare Cards by Daisy Hernandez, New York Times (5/31/03)

State to Survey Mentally Ill in Residences by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (12/13/02)

State Panel Seeks Changes in Homes for Mentally Ill by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (9/24/02)

Mentally Ill Go To Homes Seen As Little Better by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (6/3/02)

Broken Homes by Clifford J. Levy, New York Times (4/28/02 – 4/30/02, four-part series)

Complaint Accuses New York City of Bias Against Mentally Ill by Nina Bernstein, New York Times (4/3/02)

Change in Operators Ordered for Troubled Mental Facility, New York Times (5/04/01)

Moving Stories: A state program pays for mentally ill people to live on their own—but not enough to keep them from getting evicted by Nora McCarthy, City Limits (April 2001)

Inquiry Finds Mentally Ill Patients Endured ‘Assembly Line’ Surgery by Clifford J. Levy and Sarah Kershaw, New York Times (3/18/01)

Adult-Care Home Sued: Residents Allege Unneeded Surgeries by Joshua Robin, Newsday (3/11/01)

Judge Postpones Closing of Group Home by Somini Sengupta, New York Times (7/1/00)

Home for Mentally Ill Is Evicting People, Residents Say by Shaila K. Dewan, New York Times (6/30/00)

Consumer

Fraud Common Among Debt Buyers by Eileen Markey, City Limits (5/27/10)

Debt Collectors Typically Violate State Law by Daniel Massey, Crain¹s New York Business (5/24/2010)

Bloomberg Signs Bill Beefing Up Regulation of Process Servers; City Bar Backs More Reforms by Noeleen G. Walder, New York Law Journal (4/15/10)

City Council Law Toughens Rules for Process Servers by Sara Kugler, New York Law Journal (3/29/10)

Council Approves Legislation to Hold Process Servers Accountable by Karen Zraick, The New York Times (3/26/10)

Making Sure Process Servers Really Deliver by Gail Robinson, Gotham Gazette (3/26/10)

More Trouble for Debtors, Consumer Reports (March 2010)

Lawsuit Charges ‘Sewer Service’ Fraud by New York Debt Collectors, by Ray Rivera, New York Times (12/31/2009)

Suit Aims to Vacate 100,000 Judgments by Joel Stashenko and Noeleen G. Walder, New York Law Journal (7/23/09)

Debt Cowboys Riding Wild by Robert Gearty, New York Daily News (7/20/2009)

Cuomo Tries to Enforce Notification to Debtors by Jonathan D. Glater, New York Times (4/14/2009)

Proponen ley contra cobradores by Candida Portugues, El Diario-La Prensa (2/26/2009)

Bill Proposes Expanded Debt Collection Oversight by Noeleen G. Walder, New York Law Journal (2/26/2009)

Watching the Collectors: Debtor Protection in Works by Jillian Jonas, City Limits (7/31/2006)

Debt Collection Agencies Under Scrutiny at Hearing by Sewell Chan, New York Times (6/13/2006)

An Outcry Rises as Debt Collectors Play Rough, New York Times (7/5/2006)

Family Law

Pfizer’s Extraordinary Commitment to Children Awaiting Adoption by Lynn Kelly, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (8/06)

General