Baseball season is about to get up and running. Good luck on your team for this year. In my case: the Chicago Cubs are expected to be good; the Chicago White Sox not so good; and the Atlanta Braves, anybody’s guess. Also, hope everyone is having fun if not success with the NCAA tournament. Currently,
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Just where are ESA and service animals allowed on college and university campuses? The true false Analysis
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I am a little bit late with an entry this week. However, I have a good excuse. My 14-year-old daughter went off to overnight camp for the first time. She will be gone 4 weeks! That leaves my wife and I empty nesters. This is going to take some getting used to.
The blog entry…
Colleges and Universities Duty to Warn Obligations; The ADA is Lurking
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While this blog is entitled Understanding the ADA, the blog as you know extends into other laws that are related in one way or another to the rights of persons with disabilities. Also, as you know, I spent 12 years in higher education teaching people how to be paralegals, with the last four of that…
Web Accessibility and Universities
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In a previous blog entry, which I keep on my greatest hits section of my blog, I discuss what you need to do with respect to auditing your educational institution for ADA compliance. In #14 of that blog entry, I mentioned that whatever services are being offered on the Internet, the institution needs to…
Are fraternities subject to title III of the ADA?
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This blog entry is divided into separate categories: introduction; the statutes; the case of the week; and takeaways. You probably will want to read all of it, but you still have the option to focus on any of the categories you like.
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Introduction
Recently, I ran across this article, in my Google alerts.…
Why all colleges, universities, and graduate programs need to do the two-step (with apologies to the state of Texas): essential eligibility requirements and direct threat
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Just recently, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education joined forces to issue a letter (the link will take you to the press release. In that press release, there is another link to the letter itself), to schools of medicine, schools of dentistry, schools of nursing,…
The ADA, The rehabilitation act, and the ministerial exception
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Posted in Federal Cases, Title I
This blog entry asks the question as to what is the status of the ADA and the Rehabilitation Act with respect to employees that work for religious institutions. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, 132 S. Ct. 694 (2012). In that case,…