Author: Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C.

Nancy J. Winkler has filed a complaint with the U. S. District Court asserting that the State of New Jersey failed to address the systemic abuse at the New Lisbon Developmental Center. The Civil Rights action against the State of New Jersey and its Department of Human Services (DHS) declares that they subjected her client, Mr. Hollis, to inhumane living conditions that resulted in his wrongful and untimely death from extreme hypothermia at the Burlington County facility in December 2009. “