By Elaine Donnelly
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced Thursday the "historic" settlement of 37-year-old litigation brought by mental health patients who decried the District's lack of non-institutional treatment settings.
The case, Dixon v. Gray, had out-lived two judges since its filing by William Dixon and other patients at St. Elizabeths Hospital in 1974, Dennis Jones, the case's court monitor, said.
Mr. Jones also noted that several attorneys who attended negotiation meetings on the settlement were born after the litigation began.
