Last week, the Department of Justice proposed rules implementing title II and title III of the ADA in light of the amendments to the ADA. I’m not going to go into depth here, but I thought I’d go over some particularly significant items in the proposed rule. Of course, what follows is not comprehensive and
The ADA and Bar Examiners: Uphill Climb for Wannabe Attorneys may have just become less so
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In a previous blog entry, I talked about how a person with an MH history desiring to be an attorney faces an uphill climb with respect to the State Bar’s character and fitness gauntlet that has to be run. In particular, I talked about a case from the Supreme Court of South Dakota that…
All by myself (with apologies to Eric Carmen): to file suit under title III of the ADA, do you have to first exhaust administrative remedies?
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Title I of the Americans With Disabilities Act requires that a person seeking to file a claim for employment discrimination must first file a claim with the EEOC or a substantially equivalent state agency and receive a right to sue letter before proceeding in court. What if you wish to file a claim under title…
NFL CBA and the ADA
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Persons with disabilities and the National Football League have been in the news of late. In particular, the Chicago Bears acquired a person with a mental disability and then there was the person in the draft that scored very poorly on the Wunderlic test. I thought it would be interesting to go through the collective…