In a prior blog entry, I talked about a case out of Michigan whereby the District Court granted summary judgment to the County when the county refused to hire a person who wanted to be a lifeguard because he was deaf. Well now the Sixth Circuit has weighed in and has reversed the district
Help wanted: ASL practitioners
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A fascinating case, Belton v. Georgia, 2012 WL 1080304 (N.D. Ga. March 30, 2012), recently came down from the northern district of Georgia. In this case, two people who were both deaf and suffered from mental illness sued the state of Georgia because the state of Georgia simply was not set up to accommodate…
I wanna be a lifeguard with apologies to blotto
By William Goren on
Keith v. Oakland County, 2011 WL 3862329 (Eastern District of Michigan September 1, 2011), is a fascinating case containing several very important points. In this case, a deaf person trained to be a lifeguard. During the training process he received a variety of accommodations and was able to complete the training successfully. However, when he…