Topic
Disability
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Daniel S. Gonzales Blog
Prolific ADA Litigant Shelved?
Back in 2019, I noted a spike in cases brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) against small businesses in Silicon Valley, and asked readers to share their experiences. …
Special Needs Companies Blog
Special Needs Trust Administration
Host Annette Hines wraps up her series on legal planning and supporting the decision-making of your loved one with disabilities during Special Needs Awareness Month with a deep dive into…
Bill Madden's Blog
Limitation & disability (NSW).
By Bill Madden
Smith v Jones [2022] NSWSC 1191 (on Caselaw). Since the introduction of varying discoverabilty provisions across Australian jurisdictions, limitation arguments focusing on disability seem to have been infrequent. In this…
Health Law Prof Blog
Ending the Discriminatory Pretrial Incarceration of People with Disabilities: Liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act
Margo Schlanger (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Jordan (University of Denver) Roxana Moussavian (Pangea Legal Services), Ending the Discriminatory Pretrial Incarceration of People with Disabilities: Liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act…
Labor & Employment Report
Employers, Are You Regarding Those Socially Awkward Employees as Disabled?
By Fiona W. Ong
Being "on the spectrum" is a pretty common way of referring to individuals with autism (although my husband, a doctor, had never heard of that. Where has he been? Granted,…
Understanding the ADA
If a Federal Courthouse is not Accessible to a Person With a Disability, What Remedies do They Have?
Today’s blog entry is a case sent to me by Prof. Leonard Sandler, a clinical law professor at the University of Iowa. The case of the day is Wilds v.…
Health Law Update
HHS and DOJ Issue Joint Guidance on Nondiscriminatory Telehealth Practices
By Vimala Devassy, Justin Chavez
To coincide with the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Department of Justice’s…
Vedder Works
The EEOC Issues Updated Guidance on COVID-19 Testing
By Cara J. Ottenweller, Taylor A. McCann
On July 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its COVID-19 guidance for the workplace, most notably, its guidance regarding COVID-19 testing of employees. Prior to last week,…
HR Defense
ALERT! Your COVID-19 Policies and Procedures Need a BOOSTER!
By Lauren Gandle, Kirk S. Davis, Akerman Law
Employers who are conducting automatic COVID-19 testing of employees or gathering test results of employees' families should beware: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") has issued new guidance limiting the…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
A Q&A on service animals at work
The EEOC has sued Hobby Lobby, accusing the arts-and-crafts retailer of refusing to reasonably accommodate a cashier by declining her the use a service dog and ultimately firing her. The…