Significant Developments in Mental Health and Disability Law

Keynote

Date: Saturday, 9/26

Time: 10:30-11:45am

A review and analysis of leading mental health law, ADA and Section 504, and Medicaid cases of the past year, as well as a review of federal initiatives impacting Medicaid, psychiatric drugs, housing, and the rights of people with psychiatric disabilities. We will also look at leading state law trends in the areas of civil commitment, the right to refuse treatment, and guardianship, with discussion of potentially successful areas of litigation and advocacy in the coming year, important legal issues that remain to be resolved, and the kinds of arguments that are likely to be persuasive in courts.