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Advocates Fail In First Court Case
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Published: January 24, 2009
TALLAHASSEE - A circuit court judge has dismissed an advocacy group's lawsuit against the state over cuts to services for the developmentally disabled.
The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities had sued the state Agency for Persons with Disabilities in Leon County Circuit Court, arguing the state cuts would cause "immediate irreparable harm" to about 3,600 disabled Floridians. The center claimed the state had unfairly denied thousands of people a hearing to appeal new limits on the services they can receive.
Judge John Cooper ruled Friday that the Advocacy Center and its clients had not exhausted their options for hearing their grievances through state channels.
The Center is pursuing a similar case on slightly different grounds in the First District Court of Appeals; that case is still pending.
Catherine Dolinski
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