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Disability Discrimination
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Roberts Disability Law Blog
When Disability Benefits and Disability Rights Collide: What ERISA Claimants Need to Know About the ADA
If you are receiving long-term disability (LTD) benefits through your employer’s benefit plan, or if you have applied for those benefits after your employer refused to accommodate your disability, you…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
White House Proposed Budget Targets OFCCP, Section 503, and VEVRAA
By By: Christopher J. Near, Lauren B. Hicks
Quick Hits On April 3, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget published the White House’s priorities for fiscal year (FY) 2027 through the president’s proposed federal budget and related…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
New Decision Reaffirms Roadmap for Employers on the Interactive Process
The Connecticut Appellate Court officially released a decision this week that provides some useful (if straightforward) guidance for HR professionals and employment lawyers in the state. In Hanke v. Electric…
The Employer Handbook Blog
ADA Risk: Undoing a Working Accommodation After Years of Success
A new manager walks in, looks at a long-standing accommodation, and decides it’s over. The employee had been doing the job successfully for years. That’s where the risk starts. TL;DR:…
Wait A Second!
Some guidance on authenticating medical records at trial
By secondcircuitcivilrightsblogsecondcircuitcivilrig
What we learn from this case is that evidentiary rulings at trial are difficult to challenge on appeal. The standard of appellate review is “abuse of discretion,” which is deferential…
The Employer Handbook Blog
“Focus on Your Health” Is Not a Lawful Reason to Fire Someone
Whatever the actual reason for firing an employee, the written explanation becomes evidence. A Mississippi restaurant is about to find out what that means. TL;DR: The EEOC has sued a…
The Employer Handbook Blog
When the accommodation request admits the problem
Sometimes the accommodation request itself tells the whole story. In a recent Fourth Circuit Rehabilitation Act decision, a federal air marshal asked to stay in a ground-based role permanently…
Tucker Arensberg Blog
When Placement Is Not Control: Federal Court Dismisses Student’s Civil-Rights Claims Against Public District for Private Abuse
Margaret M. Cooney, Esq., (412) 594-5548, mcooney@tuckerlaw.com Vincent C. v. Pennsbury Sch. Dist., No. 24-06340-PAC, 2025 LX 359449 (E.D. Pa. Sep. 2, 2025) ABSTRACT In Vincent C. v. Pennsbury School District,…
Rudner Law Blog
Divisional Court Overturns HRTO Decision on Disability and Jurisdiction
In the recent decision of Bokhari v. Top Medical Transportation Services1, the Divisional Court granted an applicant’s request for judicial review of a decision of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal…
SCC Blog
2026 SCC Vol. 2 Part 1: Key Supreme Court Cases on Constitution, Disabilities Act, & Surrogacy
By Sonali Ahuja
This volume of the Supreme Court Cases (SCC), Part 2 of Volume 1, embodies a landmark case decided by the Supreme Court on the scope and limit on the power…