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Toronto Estate Law Blog
How Canada Post’s phase out of door-to-door delivery will impact Senior Citizens
Hoping for some brown paper packages tied up with string over the holidays? Well, you may get some, but don’t count on them being delivered to your door. Canada Post…
Inside Global Tech
Safeway Settles ADA Accessibility Lawsuit, Makes Grocery Website Accessible to Visually Impaired
Safeway agreed in settlement of a lawsuit brought by visually-impaired customers in California and Washington State to ensure that its website, which allows people to order groceries online and have…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Infertility Discrimination as Disability Discrimination
By Tracy Thomas
Treating employer discrimination against a woman undergoing infertility treatments as disability discrimination, rather than pregnancy discrimination. See Is Infertility Grounds for Disability Discrimination Claims?
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Taking Women’s Disability Claims Seriously
By Tracy Thomas
Today the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Heimeshoff v. Harford Ins. A unanimous court upheld the rule of this particular contract that the statute of limitations runs three years…
Employment Law Watch
Three ‘golden rules’ when considering whether an employee is disabled
Last month, we looked at when employer might be deemed to have knowledge of an employee’s disability, discussing (among other cases) the EAT’s decision Gallop v Newport County Council. At that…
Civil Rights Law & Policy Blog
IDEA Class Actions After Wal-Mart v. Dukes
The title of this post comes from this recent article analyzing the ways in which courts and litigants in class action suits arising under IDEA are likely to apply the…
International Law Prof Blog
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the United Nations is calling for global efforts to ensure that the more than one billion people worldwide who live with some…
International Law Prof Blog
First Human Rights Resolution on People with Albinism
Welcoming the adoption of the first-ever resolution on people with albinism by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the United Nations human rights office today urged all African…
Education Law Prof Blog
Common Core Inspiring Reexamination of IEP Standards
Education Week writer Christina A. Samuels askedteachers and education scholars to evaluate states’ plans to align Common Coreacademic standards with Individualized Education Plans (IEP) for students withdisabilities. An emerging theme…
International Law Prof Blog
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Hold New Hearings on Disabilities Treaty
Last year, the U.S. Senate narrowly voted against giving its advice and consent to U.S. ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The U.S. Senate…