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Is pregnancy a disability? The true false version
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Three of my colleagues, Robin Shea, Eric Meyer, and Jon Hyman have written excellent blog entries on the latest EEOC guidance dealing with pregnancy discrimination. There is also a section of that guidance dealing with how pregnancy may also constitute disability discrimination under certain circumstances. I thought it would be informative if I…
Is a person with a disability entitled to an attorney in a civil matter as a reasonable accommodation under title II of the ADA or under state law?
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One of my more popular blog entries is the blog entry that discusses suing a state court system for disability discrimination. I also have a second blog entry following up on that blog entry.
This blog entry explores a related topic. Let’s say a person with a disability finds themselves in the court system…
Be careful about taking accommodations that are working away
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I know I generally blog on Mondays, but this has been a strange week between client matters and an unusual family schedule.
Also, it isn’t unusual for those who blog to wind up blogging on things that some other blogger has covered. I don’t mind doing that so long as we have different perspectives that…
National Association of the Deaf v. Netflix as prevailing authority? Not so fast
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In a previous blog entry, I discussed the case of the National Association of the Deaf v. Netflix, a decision from the District Court in Massachusetts. In that discussion, I expressed surprise that not only did Netflix not appeal, they settled for $900,000. The reason I expressed surprise was that this case broke…
Granting a right to display doesn’t mean the obligation ends there
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Let’s say you have this situation. The city holds an outdoor car show allowing a whole bunch of people to display their wares outside. One of the vendors blocks the curb ramps providing persons with disabilities access to the sidewalk in front of the hotel where a person was staying as he was…
Goodbye Safe Harbor Thanks to the Affordable Care Act?
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My experience with law review articles is that for the most part they are very difficult to read, rarely practical, and rarely on the cutting edge of things with respect to how practitioners are concerned. There are exceptions. For example, in my book, in the ADA and Sports chapter, I spent quite…
Right of a deaf child to access a city’s municipal recreational league
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I recently came across this article on the Internet discussing a case where the parents of an 8-year-old boy who is deaf are suing Greensburg, Pennsylvania, for failing to provide an interpreter for the child while he plays in the city soccer program. According to the article, the suit was filed on May 29, 2014,…
If you do standardized testing, your world as you know it has ended
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My usual practice is to put up a blog entry on Mondays. However, Monday is Memorial Day, and so I thought I would put up a blog entry today, especially since there has been some big news this week. In particular, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing of the State of California, United States…
Litigation strategy and how to make ADA matters worse
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One of my favorite songs of all time is “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers. For those who don’t know, it is a song about poker, but it might as well be a metaphor about litigation. The chorus of the song goes, “you gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold ’em, know when…