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Journalist speaks with Mental Health Section Council members By Patti Werner Mental Health Law, October 2016 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Jackson addressed the Mental Health Section Council’s members at its September meeting.
Parent with developmental disability discriminated against by Massachusetts in violation of ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act By Patti Werner Mental Health Law, June 2015 To permit termination of parental rights based on the “inability to discharge parental duties,” without identifying those duties or defining how they are measured, invites the same kinds of presumptions and stereotypes that the DOJ and HHS found violated the ADA in the Massachusetts case.

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