I wanted to tell everyone that my thoughts are with you with respect to weather-related disasters. California struggling terribly with the fires. The South got hit with winter storms. We had 4 inches of snow in Atlanta. Fortunately, it should all be gone by later this afternoon. Again, my thoughts are with everybody.
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Just recently, North Dakota enacted into their Constitution an age limit, here, for those serving in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. In particular, that constitutional amendment says: “no person may be elected or appointed to serve a term or a portion of the term in the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House
Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. The blog of the week is actually a two-for-one. We will discuss an update to a previous blog entry, here. After that, we will discuss a decision from a Colorado appellate court clarifying the rules with
Today’s blog entry is not on an issue that I have blogged on previously. It deals with the question of what happens when a person leaves employment and was otherwise qualified during that employment, but after the employment ends, some discriminatory action occurs. Does title I apply since the person is no longer otherwise qualified/qualified?
As everyone knows, Naomi Osaka made news last week in a big way. One of the things that I saw is that labor and employment bloggers were using it as an analogy for how they would deal with something like this under title I of the ADA, such as here184192212213215215. Sports commentators, such as
Today’s blog entry comes to me courtesy of Richard Hunt, who in his blog will often do many briefs of several cases at once. He focuses on title III and the Fair Housing Act, especially from the defense side. However, he did mention our case of the day in one of his blogs, and I
Today’s blog entry explores the following situation. A defendant was charged with multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The victim, R.L., of that abuse suffered posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as a result. She testified at trial with a service dog. The
Today’s blog entry is a topic that I have never discussed before. Since December 2011, my records show that I have put up 408 blog entries. In not one of them, have I discussed today’s entry. Today’s entry discusses the doctrine of after-acquired evidence and how it works with title I and logically, to a
Today’s blog entry deals with the question of whether the DOJ final regulations on service dogs are applicable to a case arising under the Rehabilitation Act and not the ADA. The case is Berardelli v. Allied Services Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, a published decision from the Third Circuit decided August 14, 2018. As usual,
