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Disability
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California Employment Law Update
Employee Who Refused To Return To Work After COVID Was Not Disabled
By Tony Oncidi
Allos v. Poway Unified Sch. Dist., 2025 WL 1864797 (Cal. Ct. App. 2025) Kheloud Allos sued her former employer, the Poway Unified School District, for alleged violations of the FEHA…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Labor Secretary Lifts Abeyance on OFCCP Disability and Veteran Matters
By By: Lauren B. Hicks, Christopher J. Near
Quick Hits Secretary’s Order 08-2025 lifts the prior abeyance placed on investigative and enforcement activities related to Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance…
Disability Insurance Blog
Can I File a Disability Claim for Pregnancy? Part II
As explained in our previous post, some disability insurance policies indicate that they won’t pay benefits due to pregnancy or childbirth, but that they will cover a disability due to…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Decision Alert: Retirees Cannot Bring a Claim Under the ADA as a “Qualified Individual”
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Monika Harris
In Stanley v. City of Sanford, the Court held 7-2 that a retiree is not a “qualified individual” under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA),…
Gov Con Employment Exchange
OFCCP Proposes Changes to Veterans and Disability Regulations
OFCCP has published proposed modifications to the VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations which govern federal contractor affirmative action obligations for veterans and individuals with disabilities. The proposed changes to the…
Legal Theory Blog
Finchett-Maddock on Outsider Art and Law
Lucy Finchett-Maddock (Bangor Law School) has posted Inside-Out: Autonomy, Formalism and the Legal Architectures of Outsider Art (International Law and Architecture) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This piece pinpoints…
Labor & Employment Insights
Yes, Menstrual Cramps May Qualify as a Disability Under ADA
By Emma F. Duke, Anne R. Yuengert
If a qualified job candidate asks to reschedule a second-round interview due to severe menstrual cramps associated with endometriosis, is that a request for an accommodation under the Americans with…
Global Policy Watch
European Accessibility Act: June 2025 deadline has arrived
On 28 June 2025, the European Accessibility Act (“EAA”)—a 2019 directive—will begin applying to covered products and services. The EAA imposes various obligations on technology and online service providers among others, requiring…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
D. Dangaran on “Bending Gender: Disability Justice, Abolitionist Queer Theory, and ADA Claims for Gender Dysphoria”
By Jamie Abrams
D. Dangaran has published Bending Gender: Disability Justice, Abolitionist Queer Theory, and ADA Claims for Gender Dysphoria in volume 137 of the Harvard Law Review Forum. The abstract is excerpted below: The…
Legal Theory Blog
Covo on Contractualization of Disability Rights
Yaron Covo (Yale University - Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy) has posted The Contractualization of Disability Rights Law (92 U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. Here…