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Elder Law Prof Blog
CMS Issues ABLE letter to State Medicaid Directors
By rmorgan
CMS released State Medicaid Director Letter #17-002, Implications of the ABLE Act for State Medicaid Programs. The letter is designed to give guidance to state Medicaid programs on implementing ABLE.…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Houston Court of Appeals Rejects Direct Evidence
"Direct" evidence of discrimination generally means a statement that clearly indicates discriminatory intent. In one of my early cases, a San Antonio manager said "we need to get rid of…
The Faculty Lounge
CFP: Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law and Bioethics
This just in: “Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” Justice William…
PrawfsBlawg
CFP: Petrie-Flom Center: BEYOND DISADVANTAGE: DISABILITY, LAW, AND BIOETHICS
Main Wednesday, August 02, 2017CFP: Petrie-Flom Center: BEYOND DISADVANTAGE: DISABILITY, LAW, AND BIOETHICSBeyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and BioethicsJUNE 1, 2018 “Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability…
CommLaw Monitor
July 2017 FCC Meeting Recap: FCC Expands Video Described Programming Requirement
By Kelley Drye
In advance of its July Open Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) unanimously adopted a Report and Order (Order) that revises the rules requiring certain video programming providers to make video…
Legal Profession Blog
Court Declines To Interfere In Tenure-Denial Case
An unpublished opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a discrimination claim brought by a Western Carolina University professor who was denied…
Employment Law Business Guide
Mental Health and Disability in the Workplace
As an attorney who counsels employers through difficult personnel issues, I am often asked, sometimes even in general conversation, what issues are the “hottest” and most frequent I see in…
California Employment Law Update
Employee Who Suffered From “Altered Mental State” Need Not Be Allowed To Rescind Her Resignation
By Tony Oncidi
Featherstone v. Southern Cal. Permanente Med. Grp., 2017 WL 1399709 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017) Ruth Featherstone alleged that her former employer (SCPMG) discriminated against her based on a "temporary disability"…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Grants Honda Twenty Month Extension to Comply with Video Accessibility Rules
By Kelley Drye
On March 16, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau (Bureau) released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order) addressing Honda Motor Co., Ltd’s (Honda) January 2017 petition for limited waiver…
K-12 Legal Insights
Web Accessibility: What lies ahead in the Trump Administration?
By Ally Towers
In our present-day education system, technology is an essential, incomparable learning tool for students at all grade levels; and thus, the importance of its accessibility to each and every student…