I hope those that celebrated had a happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas, happy new year, and happy holidays to everyone.
Today’s blog entry is my top 11 or so for the year. As is my past practice, I have included important blog entries that do not make the list . Most of those though were
Picture: A glock pistol, set against a dark background, standing up with barrel pointed down on a brown hardwood floor with its magazine lying next to it.
This blog entry will be the last substantive blog entry of the year. The next blog entry for the calendar year will be my greatest hits and other
On December 6, 2023, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Muldrow v. City of St. Louis. It isn’t actually an ADA case at all but rather a title VII case. Depending on how the decision ultimately comes down, it could have implications for a question that we have been
Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I wanted to give everyone a heads up as to the blogging schedule for the rest of the calendar year. My daughter comes home for a three week break on December 13, so we have this blog this week. I will also have a blog
Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I wanted to give everyone a heads up as to the blogging schedule for the rest of the calendar year. My daughter comes home for a three week break on December 13, so we have this blog this week. I will also have a blog
I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend. Today’s blog entry goes to the dogs literally. The blog entry talks about two different cases involving service animals and how the court system deals with them. My thanks to Prof. Leonard Sandler, clinical law professor at the University of Iowa Law School for sending along the
Happy thanksgiving week everyone!!!
Today’s blog entry is the complaint, here, and consent decree, here, in U.S. v. City of Blaine, MN. The case has incredible parallels to what is going on in the world of health care professionals and Physician Health Programs (substance abuse programs such as discussed in this case,
Previously, I have blogged on the inaccessibility of kiosks. Both of those blog entries, here and here, discussed whether the kiosk was a place of public accommodation. The case of the day, Vargas v. Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories, here, is a bit different. In this case, you have a place that operates to
One of the hot areas in title I of the ADA is the question of whether an employer has a mandatory duty of reassignment to a vacant position where the employee is no longer qualified per the ADA for that position. The circuits are split on that, so it is just a matter of time
At least once a month, I get a phone call where a judge is treating a person with a disability in their courtroom in a hostile way. The person always wants to know what can be done about it and whether judges are allowed to do that. I have talked before going after the judiciary