May 26, 2015 - Atlanta, GA - SUE JAMIESON is the Project Director of the Mental Health & Disability Rights Project of Atlanta Legal Aid Society. In 1999, in Olmstead v. L.C., a case brought by Sue and others on behalf of two women in a Georgia state institution, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires public entities to place persons with disabilities who are in institutions in more integrated, community based settings, if their clinicians agree and this is their choice. Since then, Sue's work at the ALAS rights projects has focused on ways to

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May 26, 2015 - Atlanta, GA - SUE JAMIESON is the Project Director of the Mental Health & Disability Rights Project of Atlanta Legal Aid Society. .In 1999, in Olmstead v. L.C., a case brought by Sue and others on behalf of two women in a Georgia state institution, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires public entities to place persons with disabilities who are in institutions in more integrated, community based settings, if their clinicians agree and this is their choice. Since then, Sue’s work at the ALAS rights projects has focused on ways to establish mechanisms at the individual representation level to apply and implement the ADA principle of integration. (Credit Image: © Robin Rayne Nelson/ZUMA Wire)