Today’s blog entry talks about a case that is not an ADA case at all. However, I do expect the case to have a huge impact on a particular area of ADA jurisprudence. As we know, such as discussed here, there has been considerable debate in the courts over whether failure to accommodate cases
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Laufer Mooted by Supreme Court
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Before getting started on the blog entry of the week, I wanted to give everyone a heads up as to the blogging schedule for the rest of the calendar year. My daughter comes home for a three week break on December 13, so we have this blog this week. I will also have a blog…
Have ADA Serial Plaintiffs and Testers Hit a Dead End?
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Today’s blog entry discusses the real issue of whether ADA serial plaintiffs, architectural or Internet, and ADA testers will continue to have standing with respect to claims filed in federal court. The case of the day actually has nothing to do with disability discrimination, but in a sense it has everything to do with disability…
Expect Every ADA Case in Litigation to Litigate Causation
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Posted in General
Up until about this morning, I had no idea what I was going to blog on this week. I was thinking I was going to blog on a case in my pipeline that is a tour de force with respect to associational discrimination. However, when I started checking my email, I saw in my law…
Interstate Sovereign Immunity
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Posted in General
Today’s blog entry discusses the case that came down from the United States Supreme Court on May 13, 2019, discussing interstate sovereign immunity. The case is Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt. We have blogged on sovereign immunity before, such as here. It is an incredibly complicated area of the law, but…
How is Fry playing out in the lower courts?
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In searching for a blog entry to do this week and striking out with my Lexis alert, I thought it might be interesting to see how Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools, discussed here, was playing out in the lower courts. When I did that, I came across the case of K.G. v. Bluff-Luton Community School …
Perez v. MBA and it’s Impact on the ADA Universe: Huge and Starting with new DOT Final Regulations
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Introduction
Sometimes a case can have a huge impact on the ADA universe even though it is not an ADA case at all. Gross v. FBL Financial Services 557 U.S. 167 (2009) is one such case and today’s case is another. As is my usual practice, the blog entry has been divided into several…
Recent EEOC guidances and a recent fact sheet
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It has been a little while since we talked about employment law here. Now, it is time to get back to it. Recently the EEOC issued four guidances on four different disabilities, diabetes, intellectual disability, cancer, and epilepsy. They also issued a fact sheet on the mental health provider’s role in…
Is reassignment mandatory revisited
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Posted in Title I
In a prior blog entry, I discussed a case where the Seventh Circuit was faced with the question as to whether the ADA mandated reassignment or whether competitive bidding would suffice in order to comply with the ADA. That particular case, as discussed previously in this blog, held that prior Seventh Circuit precedent…
Olmstead evolves
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In Olmstead v. L.C., 527 U.S. 581 (1999), United States Supreme Court held that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act for for a State to have a system that did not allow persons with mental illness to be treated in the community. Since that time, the United States government has been very aggressive…