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Posted by: Paul Burch on Jun 8, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that allowed the wife of Gorgi Talevski, a nursing home resident diagnosed with dementia, to sue Health and Hospital Corp of Marion County over claims it violated her husband’s civil rights, reported Reuters. The ruling preserved the ability of people to sue for civil rights violations under Section 1983, a law enacted as part of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 to protect the rights of Black Americans by granting people the power to sue in federal court when state officials violate their constitutional or statutory rights. In a 2019 lawsuit, Gorgi’s wife, Ivanka Talevski, said her husband was subjected to harmful psychotropic drugs and unlawfully transferred to an all-male facility. He died in 2021, while the litigation was pending.