Does the United States ever participate in lawsuits brought by private citizens?
Yes. The Department sometimes participates in private suits either by intervention or as amicus curiae “friend of the court.” One suit in which the United States participated was brought by a disability rights group against KinderCare Learning Centers. The United States supported the plaintiffs position that KinderCare had to make its program accessible to a boy with multiple disabilities including mental retardation. The litigation resulted in KinderCares agreement to develop a model policy to allow the child to attend one of its centers with a state-funded personal assistant. • In the first agreement, Sunshine Child Center in Gillett, Wisconsin, agreed to: (1) provide diapering services to children who, because of their disabilities, require diapering more often or at a later age than nondisabled children; (2) put on and remove the complainants leg braces as necessary; (3) ensure that the complainant is not unnecessarily segregated from her age-appropriate classroom; (4) engage in re
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