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Disability Discrimination
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Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment
Steps too far
By Giles Peaker
I should start with an apology to Geeta Koska of One Pump Court, who sent me this judgment a year ago. The delay is entirely my fault. Zikic v London…
School Law
CAS Legal Mailbag – 2/12/26
Originally appeared in the CAS Weekly Newsletter Dear Legal Mailbag: As an assistant principal, one of my main jobs is handling discipline. Recently, one of my students videoed a fight at…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Helping Injured Men but Not Women: Sex Bias, Disability Discrimination, or Neither?
When employees say, “You helped him when he was injured but refused to help me,” it sounds like discrimination. It also sounds like a failure-to-accommodate dispute. A recent Ninth Circuit…
Missouri Lawyers Media
HR director wins suit against state agency for disability discrimination
By Kallie Cox
A state HR director won a $1.07M jury verdict after proving disability discrimination and a hostile work environment tied to FMLA leave and depression. The post HR director wins suit…
Bill of Health
The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America
By Erin Scott
Disability The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the…
The Employer Handbook Blog
How a Drug Test Exposed an ADA Compliance Gap
Hiring can feel like a checklist: background check, drug test, start date. But when an applicant raises a disability-related issue, those boxes stop being routine, and the Americans with…
The Employer Handbook Blog
When a 30-Second Recruiting Call Becomes Direct Evidence of ADA Discrimination
A single recruiting phone call. No application. No interview. And yet, enough evidence for a federal judge to let an ADA hiring case move forward. TL;DR: A federal court in…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Remote Work as an Accommodation Still Comes With Performance Expectations
When an employee’s health takes a turn, the instinct is to be flexible. The legal risk is assuming flexibility means you cannot enforce expectations. TL;DR: The Eleventh Circuit affirmed…
Student Rights Blog
It’s Illegal For Charter Schools To Screen Out Disabled Students
Last Updated on January 16, 2026 by Michelle Ball Charter schools are public schools, and can be wonderful alternatives to the typical public school. ANY California student can apply to…
Understanding the ADA
Does an Employer Have the Ability to Not Engage in the Interactive Process if the Reasonable Accommodation Request is Facially Unreasonable and Other Stuff
It’s time to get back to the grind after the holiday season. I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Today’s blog entry deals with the implications of what…