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Disability
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Uncovering the Gendered Nature of Disability Discrimination
By Tracy Thomas
Jennifer Bennett Shinall (Vanderbilt), The Substantially Impaired Sex: Uncovering the Gendered Nature of Disability Discrimination, Minnesota L. Rev. (forthcoming).Abstract: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 was a…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
The Rights and Limitations of Associational Discrimination under the ADA
While a recent Second Circuit case received lots of headlines regarding its discussion of individual liability under FMLA, the case has some other nuggets for employers to understand, as my…
Education Law Prof Blog
Fourth Circuit Rejects Deliberate Indifference Suit Based On Disability Harassment; N.H. Supreme Court Reinstates Counselor Who Sued To Protect A Student’s Privacy
Fourth Circuit Applies Davis v. Monroe County To Student-on-Student Harassment Claims Based on DisabilityThe Fourth Circuit recently affirmed a summary judgment finding against a disabled student, S.B., who sued his school board claiming that officials had been deliberately indifferent to…
Understanding the ADA
Is an Underlying Condition Required for Obesity Being Protected under the ADA?
The labor and employment blogosphere, see this excellent blog entry of Robin Shea and another excellent, and always provocative, blog entry from Richard Hunt for examples, have been talking about…
Education Law Prof Blog
Recent Scholarship On Race and Inclusion; School Resource Officers And Children With Disabilities
Finding Common Ground Across Race and Religion: Judicial Conceptions of Political Community in Public SchoolsStuart Chinn (Oregon) has posted Finding Common Ground Across Race and Religion: Judicial Conceptions of Political…
Education Law Prof Blog
Scholarship: Providing Counsel In School Discipline Cases; The ADA And Campus Recreation
The Right to Counsel in School Discipline ProceedingsJulie K. Waterstone (Southwestern) has published Counsel in School Exclusion Cases: Leveling the Playing Field, 46 Seton Hall L. Rev. 471 (2016), which calls…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gendering Disability Law
By Tracy Thomas
Michelle Travis (San Francisco), Gendering Disability to Enable Disability Rights Law, Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming)Abstract: This Article expands the social model of disability by analyzing the interaction between disability and…
La Revue
« Simplification de la pénibilité »
La pénibilité a été largement réformée par la loi n°2014-40 du 20 janvier 2014. Le nouveau dispositif de pénibilité, notoirement complexe, avait été décrypté dans la Revue en mars 2015[1].…
Fair Housing Defense
Some Thoughts On Documenting Responses to Reasonable Accommodation Requests
I do not typically use my own active cases as examples here at the Fair Housing Defense blog, but a similar issue has come up in two of them (one…
School Law
Second Circuit Holds District Denied FAPE by Refusing to Discuss Bullying at IEP Meeting
On January 20, 2016, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its decision in T.K. v. New York City Dep’t of Educ., --- F.3d ---, 2016 WL 229842…