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Tenth Circuit Clarifies ADA Direct-Threat Defense For EEOC Litigation
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Alexis P. Robertson On March 16, 2015, in EEOC v. Beverage Distributors Co., LLC, No. 14-1012 (10th Cir. 2014), the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Tenth…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Schlumberger Tried to do All It Could to Accommodate
On the third day of Juan Alonzo-Miranda's trial, he was cross-examined by the defense lawyer. The lawyer elicited testimony from the mechanic that when he was evacuated by ambulance to…
Education Law Prof Blog
Accidentally on Purpose: Intent in Disability Discrimination Law
By Derek Black
Mark Weber's new article, Accidentally on Purpose: Intent in Disability Discrimination Law, is now available on ssrn here and forthcoming in Boston College Law Review. For those interested in intentional discrimination…
Education Law Prof Blog
Court Rejects School District Attempt to Sue State in IDEA Case by Mark Weber
By Derek Black
In Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District v. California Department of Education, Nos. 12-6665, 12-16818, 2015 WL 1136449 (9th Cir. Mar. 16, 2015), the court of appeals ruled that school districts lack…
Education Law Prof Blog
UCLA Civil Rights Project Report: Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap?
UCLA's Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project has published Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap? by Daniel Losen, Cheri Hodson, Michael A. Keith II, Katrina Morrison,…
Elder Law Prof Blog
Why A “Pooled Trust” for Special Needs?
Texas attorney Renée C. Lovelace has literally written the book -- a guidebook -- on Pooled Trust Options. Renée was a recent guest speaker at Penn State's Dickinson Law, appearing before…
Health Law Prof Blog
tenBroek Symposium
By Francisl
For anyone interested, this is a fantastic symposium, bringing together academics, practitioners, and disability advocates.Leslie Francis2015 Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium The ADA at Fifty: The Future of Disability Law and…
Legislation Law Prof Blog
Transgender Litigant Challenges ADA’s Exclusion of “Gender Identity Disorder”
By Kevin Barry
Thanks to the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the ADA now protects far more people with disabilities than it once did. However, the Amendments did nothing to change the ADA’s…
International Law Prof Blog
Development Agenda Must Include Rights of Persons with Disabilities
“One billion people – 15 per cent of the world’s population – are persons with disabilities, and their rights cannot be ignored,” a group of United Nations human rights experts…
Education Law Prof Blog
New Study Examines How School Accountability Affects the Delivery of Special Education
By Derek Black
"As part of its work to conduct a congressionally mandated national assessment of how well the IDEA is achieving its purposes, the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences…