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ImmigrationProf Blog
Being an Immigrant With Disabilities
A new Urban Institute report (Being an Immigrant with Disabilities) offers information about immigrants with disabilities, a group often ignored in the discussion of immigrants and immigration.Drawing on five-year estimates…
Workers Compensation Watch
The problem with being released back to work from an injury with no restrictions when you still probably have restrictions
By Jon Rehm
Being sent back to work with “no restrictions” can actually make it harder for injured workers to return to work and retain jobs Recently I read medical records in two…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reimagining Gender Through British Equality Law Using Paths from Religion and Disability Law
By Tracy Thomas
Flora Renz & Davina Cooper, Reimagining Gender through Equality Law: What Legal Thoughtways do Religion and Disability Offer?, Feminist Legal Studies, 2022British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
CLEA Outstanding Student Award: UVA’s Katie Kramer
By Jeff Baker
CLEA Outstanding Clinical Student Award: Katie Kramer in the University of Virginia's Health and Disability Law Clinic. Katie Kramer is the kind of law student who makes her supervisors into better lawyers.…
California Employment Law Update
May 2022 California Employment Law Notes
By Tony Oncidi
We invite you to review our newly-posted May 2022 California Employment Law Notes, a comprehensive review of the latest and most significant developments in California employment law. The highlights include:…
California Employment Law Update
Employee with Mild Symptoms of COVID-19 Was Not “Disabled” Under California Law
By Tony Oncidi, Wesley C. Shelton
In Michelle Roman v. Hertz Local Edition Corp., a United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of California granted summary judgment in favor of Hertz, and against former…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
U.S. High Court Says No Emotional Distress Damages for Discrimination Under Rehab Act and ACA
By By: David Raizman, Zachary V. Zagger
The Supreme Court of the United States, on April 28, 2022, held that emotional distress damages are not available for private discrimination claims under the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973…
Understanding the ADA
Using Transitory and Minor Exception as a Preventive Law Tool for Temporary Disabilities Does Not Withstand Further Analysis
My daughter completed her classroom component for high school this week and now is just waiting to graduate, so my schedule has been a bit all over the place. Hence,…
Human Rights at Home Blog
May-June 2022 Deadlines: Calls for Inputs by UN Human Rights Mechanisms
The following calls for inputs have been issued by UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in May-June 2022 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Including Disabled People in the Battle to Protect Abortion Rights: A Call to Action
By Jamie Abrams
Robyn Powell has placed her forthcoming article, Including Disabled People in the Battle to Protect Abortion Rights: A Call-to-Action, in the UCLA Law Review. A draft is available on SSRN. The…