It is shaping up to be a very interesting election year. In honor of the election theme, today is right after the Republican Nevada caucus with super Tuesday coming up next week, today’s case is a case out of the Fourth Circuit, National Federation of the Blind v. Lamone, which discusses whether the Maryland
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Police liability for not knowing or ignoring the ADA
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In a comment to a previous blog entry, I discussed the case of Gipson v. Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits. In that case, the Northern District of Georgia said that considering what police have to do, it wasn’t right to impose ADA liability on the police since the police are not lawyers and have…
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…