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Title III Standing and ADA Liability for Real Estate Investment Trusts

By William Goren on September 19, 2017
Posted in ADA, Federal Cases, State Cases, Title III

I have been blogging since December 2011. In all that time, with the exception of a winter break, I have never taken two weeks off. I do have a reason for doing so here. First, we had Labor Day weekend and then working with co-counsel, David Llewellyn, we had to move things to file a…

Compliance with the ADA When Arresting and Qualified Immunity

By William Goren on July 27, 2016
Posted in ADA, Constitutional law, Title II

Today’s case discusses the issue of just when is an arrest out of compliance with the ADA. There is also a nice little bonus of qualified immunity as well. The case is Trujillo v. Rio Arriba County ex rel. Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Department, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96797 (D. N.M. June 15, 2016).…

Sheehan Oral Argument; This one is Wild

By William Goren on March 24, 2015
Posted in ADA, Constitutional law, Federal Cases, Final Federal Regulations, Title II, Title III

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument (the transcript can be found here), in Sheehan v. City and County of San Francisco, which I discussed in this blog entry. I’ve got to admit that this argument did not go anyway along the lines that I thought it would and here is…

Suing state court system redux

By William Goren on February 24, 2014
Posted in ADA, Federal Cases, Rehabilitation Act, Title I, Title II

One of my more popular blog entries is the blog entry that discusses suing a state court system for disability discrimination . Here is another case along those lines. In Phillips v. New Hampshire Circuit Court, Eighth Circuit, District Division, 2014 WL 495656 (D. N.H. February 5, 2014) (unpublished decision), the plaintiff had a…

Police response and ADA liability part two

By William Goren on August 19, 2013
Posted in Federal Cases, Rehabilitation Act, Title II, Title III

In a prior blog entry, I discussed a situation where the police intentionally aggravated a person with a disability pre-existing condition eventually leading to that person’s death. The court in that case held that the police force could be liable for violating title II of the ADA. This particular blog entry will once again…

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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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