It is, of course, illegal to discriminate against an employee because they have a disability—to fire someone because the employer learns they have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, for example.  But what about when the disability causes conduct that might otherwise be a legitimate basis for an action like firing? What if, for example, that schizophrenia or its treatment sometimes makes the employee late for work? While the cases discussed in this piece involve employment, accommodations…

“I call it COVID shaming… It’s a real thing that happens. It happened to me for weeks after my healing. The Rev. Shane Harris, president of the People’s Alliance for Justice According to the CDC, we must fight stigma during this COVID pandemic—against people who have, or have recovered from COVID, and against ethnic groups wrongly blamed for or seen as carriers of the virus. Asian and Asian-American people, historically marginalized as “foreign,”…