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HEALTH AND HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF MARION 
CTY. v. TALEVSKI 
Opinion of the Court 

The  Talevskis  complained  again  to  the  Department,
which  later  issued  a  report  regarding  the  Talevskis’  com-
plaints.  Subsequently,  petitioner  American  Senior  Com-
munities  LLC  (ASC),  which  manages  VCR,  contacted  Mr. 
Talevski’s  wife,  Ivanka,  to  discuss  the  possibility  of  Mr. 
Talevski’s return.  At this point, however, Mr. Talevski had
acclimated to his new home, and the Talevskis feared retri-
bution against him if he returned to VCR.  So they opted to
leave him in the new facility, which meant that every fam-
ily visit required a 3-hour round trip. 

that 

In 2019, Mr. Talevski (through Ivanka) sued VCR, ASC,
and petitioner Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion 
County  (collectively,  HHC)  under  Rev.  Stat.  §1979,  42
U. S. C. §1983.2  The lawsuit claimed that HHC’s treatment 
of  Mr.  Talevski—in  particular,  the  use  of  chemical  re-
straints and the persistent transfer attempts—had violated 
the  FNHRA  guaranteed  him  as  a 
rights 
nursing-home resident.  The District Court granted HHC’s
subsequent motion to dismiss the complaint, reasoning that
no plaintiff can enforce provisions of the FNHRA via §1983.
The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed.  It 
concluded that, under this Court’s precedent, the relevant
FNHRA provisions “unambiguously confer individually en-
forceable rights on nursing-home residents,” making those 
rights presumptively enforceable via §1983.  6 F. 4th 713, 
720 (2021).  The Court of Appeals held further that the pre-
sumption  had  not  been  rebutted  here,  because  nothing  in 
the  FNHRA  indicated  congressional  intent  to  foreclose 
§1983 enforcement of these rights.  Id., at 720–721. 

HHC  filed  a  petition  for  certiorari,  which  we  granted.3 

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2 Marion  County,  Indiana,  owns  Health  and  Hospital  Corporation, 

which in turn wholly owns VCR. 

3 After  the  Seventh  Circuit’s  ruling,  Mr.  Talevski  passed  away.    We 
granted Ivanka Talevski’s substitution motion, and substituted her as a
party at the same time we granted certiorari.  See Supreme Court Rule