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Disability Accommodation
352 published works
Human Rights at Home Blog
The LPE of Disability Accommodations
Over at the LPE Blog, Professor Shirley Lin writes about the law and political economy of disability accommodations. A defining feature of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the accommodations mandate was…
Health Law Prof Blog
Advancing Accessible Communities
Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse University), Advancing Accessible Communities, 27(3) Va. J. Social Pol’y & L. (2020):Communities must be made accessible for people with disabilities and for people seeking to age…
Employment Law Lookout
Ninth Circuit Makes Clear In Trilogy of Decisions That Disability Access Complaints Without Specific Barrier Allegations Will Be Dismissed
By Eden Anderson Seyfarth Synopsis: Ninth Circuit concludes in trilogy of disability access cases that complaints must specifically allege unlawful conditions. Over the years, ADA Title III complaints filed by…
Wisconsin Unemployment
No claim-filing accommodations for the disabled
In part 1, I described how difficult it is for disabled folks to gain access to the Department’s claim-filing and how the Department’s rules absolve the Department of responsibility for…
California Employment Law Update
Court Reverses $2.9 Million Jury Verdict For Failure To Accommodate Employee’s Disability
By Cole Lewis
Shirvanyan v. Los Angeles Community Coll. Dist., 2020 WL 7706321 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020) Anahit Shirvanyan, a former kitchen assistant employed by the District, alleged the District failed to reasonably…
Litigators at Work
Employee Incapable of Complying with Valid Safety Requirements is Not a “Qualified” Individual
By Andrew D. La Fiura, Nadine C. Abrahams, Stephanie L. Adler-Paindiris
An employee who is categorically unable to comply with an employer’s valid workplace safety requirement is not a “qualified” individual under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), even if the…
COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor
Employment Law Developments to Monitor in 2021: COVID-19-Related Employment Litigation and Trends
By Nadine C. Abrahams, Stephanie L. Adler-Paindiris
As 2021 begins, Jackson Lewis continues to work with employers to help them understand, prepare for, and handle the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace. In addition to advising and…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Minimizing the Legal Risk of Telework Accommodations
By Anne Hall
After learning to operate remotely, employers across the country have been reconsidering the place of telework, particularly as an accommodation for individuals with disabilities. As employers move forward with a…
Accessibility Defense
Happy New Years – 2020 ADA and FHA retrospective
By Richard Hunt
Here’s a toast to the end of a bad year. I don’t know anyone who won’t be happy to see 2020 behind us, but it’s worth looking back at how…
Understanding the ADA
Effective Communications and Deliberate Indifference Revisited
Today’s blog entry comes out of the Northern District of Georgia, and it involves the question of what is deliberate indifference in effective communication cases. We have talked about effective…