Today’s blog entry is a discussion of the Department of Transportation rule published on March 12, 2024 entitled, “ensuring safe accommodation for air travelers with disabilities using wheelchairs,” here. As usual, the blog entry is divided into categories and they are: the DOT summary of regulatory provisions; and thoughts/takeaways and particular concerns. The blog
Air Carrier Access Act Developments
Today’s blog entry discusses a letter From Representative Spaneberger (D-VA-07), and also signed by Representatives Cohen (D-TN-09), and Titus (D-NV-01), calling out DOT for its Air Carrier Access Act enforcement and demanding more information about their enforcement processes. We also mention a companion bill introduced by Senator Duckworth (D-IL) in partnership with Senator Fischer (R-NE),
You Can Still be Subject to Place of Public Accommodation Rules Even if You are Not a Place of Public Accommodation
Picture of Hockey helmet, puck, and stick (brown and black colors).
As readers know, I have long been interested in the intersection of the ADA and sports. Many of my blog entries cover that topic. The very first edition of Understanding the ADA back in 2000 had a whole chapter on it. The subsequent
EEOC Latest on Covid-19 and DOT’s Airline Passengers with Disabilities Bill of Rights
Last week, both EEOC and the Department of Transportation came out with guidances related to people with disabilities. The EEOC added to their running guidance on Covid-19, while the DOT came out with a bill of rights for airline passengers with disabilities. The blog entry is divided into two categories: latest amendment to the long-running
California Assembly Bill #468
Emotional support animal fraud is a big deal for not only businesses but for people with disabilities with service animals. Businesses and landlords have to manage it. People with disabilities with service animals wind up in a situation where their service animals might be in jeopardy. Also, the emotional support animal abuse creates a presumption
Can an ADA Covered Entity Require Certification or Professional Training of a Service Animal?
Before we get started on the blog of the week, I hope everybody had a happy Easter and a successful Passover. Also, there should be a really good men’s basketball game tonight. There was a really good women’s basketball game yesterday. I am assuming
Continuing Legal Education of Interest: Intersectionality of ADA, ADA, ACAA, State Negligence Laws plus Animals on Planes
Please find below, a continuing legal education webinar that I am doing in the first week of May. It has two parts to it. The first part will be discussing the intersection of the Airline deregulation act, the air Carrier Access act, the ADA, and state negligence
Effective Communications and Deliberate Indifference Revisited
Today’s blog entry comes out of the Northern District of Georgia, and it involves the question of what is deliberate indifference in effective communication cases. We have talked about effective communication and deliberate indifference numerous times before in the blog. The case of the day is Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia198199. By
Animals on Planes: DOT Final Rule
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yes to non-federal governmental entities; yes to places of public accommodations; but not on planes.
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