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Disability advocates urge San Francisco to drop Supreme Court appeal
Police Response to People with Mental Illness More than 40 disability rights and other civil rights groups signed on to a letter sent to San Francisco city officials on January 8, urging the city to...
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Obama Administration releases new resource guide for hiring people with...
Resource Guide Released The White House released a new resource guide February 3, to assist businesses in their efforts to increase disability employment. “Passage of the Americans with Disabilities...
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NYPD ends ban on officers with hearing aids
NYPD settles lawsuit On the eve of trial, the New York Police Department settled a four-year-old lawsuit challenging its blanket prohibition on allowing deaf and hard of hearing officers to operate in...
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6th Circuit rules against EEOC in employment, telecommunications case
Ford did not violate ADA, says Court In a divided 8-5 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled April 10 that Ford Motor Co. did not violate federal law when it refused to allow an...
View ArticleCadet argues for military acceptance of deaf soldiers
Often the US military seems so set in its ways as to be unchangeable. Yet in the past, the bans on women and on African American people serving in the military have both been repealed. Next, as one man...
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ADA lawsuit challenges town’s drug testing, benefits policy
Indiana Drug Testing Policies Scrutinized The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed a lawsuit against the town of Black Township, Indiana, on June 11 [PDF], on the basis that its drug testing...
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Settlement requires camp to accommodate child with epilepsy
A Maryland kids camp must provide reasonable accommodations for camper with epilepsy The Department of Justice and a Maryland-based summer camp announced a comprehensive settlement June 24, in response...
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Miniature horse accommodation lawsuit moves forward
Miniature Horse Provides Accommodations The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit revived a federal discrimination lawsuit August 14 brought by the family of a young girl who uses a miniature...
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NYC expands anti-discrimination protections for caregivers
NYC Strengthen’s Caregiver Protections Although New York City’s new caregiver protection bill is receiving far more attention for its impact on working parents and their children, the measure has...
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Disability advocates weigh in on proposal to ban smoking in public housing
Disability rights advocates are raising the alarm on a new Obama Administration proposal that they worry could potentially force thousands of people with disabilities out of their federally subsidized...
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California’s Santa Barbara County Jail slammed in new report
News from California The Santa Barbara County Jail regularly confines people with disabilities in solitary confinement and denies them basic health care and Americans with Disabilities Act protections,...
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Disability advocates call for reasonable accommodations in public housing...
The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities submitted public comments [PDF] to the Department of Housing and Urban Development on March 4, calling on the agency to create a reasonable accommodation...
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ADA lawsuit challenges McDonald’s drive-thru only hours
McDonald’s sued for accessibility of drive-thrus A Louisiana man with visual disabilities sued the world’s largest fast-food chain May 26, arguing that its drive-thru services violate his rights under...
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DOJ warns children’s theater over food allergy discrimination
The Department of Justice has determined that a children’s theater company in Massachusetts violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by excluding a child with a peanut allergy from its program. The...
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