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Massage Envy Decided by 11th Circuit

By William Goren on September 16, 2019
Posted in General

Today’s blog entry will focus on the decision from the 11th Circuit decided September 12, 2019, on the Massage Envy case we discussed here. In this decision, the 11th Circuit affirmed the opinion of the lower court holding that regarded as does not apply to fear of a future disability. As mentioned…

Colleges and Universities Duty to Warn Obligations; The ADA is Lurking

By William Goren on March 28, 2018
Posted in ADA, State Cases, Title II, Title III

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…

Segregation of HIV-positive inmates will not fly

By William Goren on December 30, 2012
Posted in Federal Cases, Final Federal Regulations, Title II

Hope everyone had a great holiday season. Wishing everybody a healthy, happy, and successful new year! In case you want to take a break from bowl games over the next couple of days, here is something you might read:-)

Alabama and South Carolina are the only States segregating inmates that are HIV-positive. In the Alabama…

Title II can’t be used to keep places that grow pot for medical purposes open

By William Goren on May 24, 2012
Posted in Federal Cases, Title II

There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, particularly among media, about the decision that just came down from the Ninth Circuit involving the efforts of the cities of Costa Mesa and Lake Forest in California to close down places that grew pot for medical purposes. The link to that decision is below…

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William Goren is one of the country’s foremost authorities on the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Since 1990, he has been advising on ADA compliance as both an attorney and professor—of which during his time as a full-time academic at various institutions in Chicago, he won numerous teaching awards and achieved tenure.

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