42 U.S.C. § 15041

Section 15041 · Purpose

Amended 1 time on record

Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Feist v. Louisiana, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General (2013)

Most recently applied in Hawai'i Disability Rights Cent v. Christina Kishimoto (November 2024)

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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

The purpose of this part is to provide for allotments to support a protection and advocacy system (referred to in this part as a “system”) in each State to protect the legal and human rights of individuals with developmental disabilities in accordance with this part.