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Understanding the ADA
Obesity as a Disability and the Case of a Legislator with a Disability Unable to do His Job
Today’s blog entry is a two-for-one. First off, with respect to being late this week, my daughter started her second year of high school today. So, this week was her…
Understanding the ADA
Just Don’t go There or Even Hint at it: Alleging working as the Major Life Activity
I am back from the Windy City. We had a good time. We did the family thing. We got some time to ourselves as well. The weather was not too…
Bill Madden's Blog
Whether NDIS can fund supports more appropriately provided but not actually offered by other health services
By Bill Madden
Burchell and National Disability Insurance Agency [2019] AATA 1256 concerned funding for an eating plan for an applicant with dysphagia as a result of cerebral palsy and cannot swallow properly.…
Legal Profession Blog
North Carolina: Trial Court Can Impose Disability Suspension
The North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the inherent authority of a trial court to impose a disability suspension. The attorney had two matters scheduled in the same courthouse.One involved responding…
Bill Madden's Blog
Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
By Bill Madden
Ronald Sackville AO QC has been appointed the Chair of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability. He will be assisted by Barbara Bennett PSM, Rhonda…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Disability, Poverty, and the Policy Behind the ABLE Act
Nancy Susan Germany, Esq. recently published an Article entitled, Disability, Poverty, and the Policy Behind the ABLE Act, NAELA News Journal, September 2018. Provided below is the introduction of the…
A Lawyer's Blog
DISABILITY AND HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT UNDER THE ADA
In this case, the employee Fox suffered from Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive‐ Compulsive Disorder since birth. A complaint was filed against his longtime employer for disability discrimination under the Americans…
Administrative and Regulatory
Justice Department: Businesses Can Provide Less Than 36″ Of Clear Sales/Service Counter Space If Counter Is At An Accessible Height
By Minh N. Vu
Seyfarth Synopsis: DOJ provides guidance on sales/service counter rules in the 2010 Standards that provides some relief to businesses. Retailers and other businesses should be pleased with the DOJ’s pronouncement…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
“Wrongful Birth” Claims and the Paradox of Parenting a Child with a Disability- applying a therapeutic justice lens
Therapeutic justice in the Mainstream (Feb. 28, 2019): "Wrongful Birth" Claims and the Paradox of Parenting a Child with a Disability- applying a therapeutic justice lens, by Sophia Yakren:Prof. Sophia…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
A 💩 disability discrimination case
A call center employee, suffering from Crohn's Disease, asks his manager for some flexibility in the company's break schedules or other accommodations for his bathroom needs. Instead, his supervisor accuses…