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Disability
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California Employment Law Update
Diabetic Employee Was Protected Under Americans With Disabilities Act
By Tony Oncidi
Rohr v. Salt River Project Agric. Improvement & Power Dist., 2009 WL 349798 (9th Cir. 2009) Larry Rohr, an insulin-dependent type 2 diabetic, brought suit for employment discrimination under the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Kirsten Smolensky on Creating Children with Disabilities — Plus Responses
Kirsten Rabe Smolensky (University of Arizona) - Creating Children with Disabilities: Parental Tort Liability for Preimplantation Genetic Interventions:Usingpreimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), parents can screen embryos forgenetic traits such as deafness…
Employment Law Watch
Disabling the ADAAA
By Stephanie Wilson, E. David Krulewicz
On January 1, 2009, the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (the “ADAAA”) took effect, bringing with it what many expect to be sweeping reforms to the landscape of federal disability…
The Faculty Lounge
Disability And Moral Culpability, Paralysis And Child Porn
Doug Berman highlights a couple of cases where individuals with severe paralysis were involved in the possession (and in one case, production) of child pornography. In an Alabama case, the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Another notable story of paralysis and prosecution for child porn
Main February 12, 2009Another notable story of paralysis and prosecution for child pornRegular readers may recall this post from December discussing a remarkable case from Buffalo in which federal prosecutors…
Legal Profession Blog
“A Pretty Vicious Guy”
From the Daily News Brooklyn:A crooked Brooklyn lawyer ripped off disabled people to the tune of $4 million and used the cash to spruce up his plush suburban home, prosecutors…
Alabama Employment Law Report
ADAAA: Does It Apply Retroactively?
Since the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) was signed into law on September 28, 2008 by President Bush, many plaintiff's attorneys have attempted to argue that…
Employee Rights Post
Doctor Who Fails to Provide Patient with Interpreter Gets Whacked
By Ellen Simon
Doctors and hospitals got a sharp reminder about their need to provide interpreters for hearing impaired patients. A Hudson County New Jersey jury awarded $400,000 to Irma Gerena who claimed…
Employment Law Watch
Employers Likely to Face Major Changes to Employment Laws in 2009
This post was also written by Vanessa K. Eisenmann. Earlier this year, we reported that Congress was considering a large number of bills that would have imposed significant new burdens on…
Sentencing Law and Policy
An understandable (but debatable?) child porn declination decision by federal prosecutors
Main December 1, 2008An understandable (but debatable?) child porn declination decision by federal prosecutorsA former student alerted me to this fascinating story from the Buffalo News, headlined "Quadriplegic spared prison…