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Disability
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California Employment Law Update
Employee Who Reported Disability During Investigation Into His Alleged Wrongdoing Was Not Discriminated Against
By Tony Oncidi
Arteaga v. Brink’s, Inc., 163 Cal. App. 4th 327 (2008) Brink’s employee Carlos Arteaga was the subject of an internal investigation into various shortages totaling $7,668 that occurred while he…
Labor Law Prof Blog
The Impact of Privatization on Persons with Disabilities
Ellen Dannin (Penn St.) has just posted on SSRN her article (forthcoming Minn. L. Rev.) Counting What Matters: Privatization, People with Disabilities, and the Cost of Low-Wage Work. Here's the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Association Discrimination and the ADA
Today's Wall Street Journal contains an extensive discussion of association discrimination claims under the ADA:Two lawsuits now pending could open the door to manymore claims under a little-known provision of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Student Scholarship: The ADA and Selective Abortion
Dov Fox and Christopher Griffin (both of Yale Law School) have posted The Collateral Effects of Law on Social Behavior: The Case of Antidiscrimination Law and Selective Abortion on SSRN. …
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
D.C. Cir: U.S. Currency Discriminates Against Blind
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
This morning the D.C. Circuit issued its opinion in The American Council of the Blind v. Paulson in which it held that U.S. currency discriminates against the visually impaired in…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
St. Louis University Law School: Symposium on Disability, Reproduction & Parenting
Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policyand the Center for Health Law Studiespresent: 20th Annual Saint Louis University Health Law Symposium …
Maryland Injury and Disability Law
Should I Get A Job?
By Dory Sutker
I just got off the phone with a client who informed me that, due to dire financial straits, she is going to get a job. Then she asked , "…
California Employment Law Update
Marijuana Compassionate Use Act Did Not Protect Employee From Termination
By Tony Oncidi
Ross v. Ragingwire Telecommunications, Inc., 42 Cal. 4th 920 (2008) In accordance with the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215), Gary Ross had a physician’s recommendation to use marijuana…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Thomas J. Miles & Cass R. Sunstein, The New Legal Realism (541).Michael S. Lynk, Disability and Work: The Transformation of the Legal Status of Employees with Disabilities in Canada (219).Paul…
Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
Hidden TBI Affects More Than 30 million Americans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 5.3 million people (2% of the U.S. population) live with a life-long disability as a result of TBI. Research suggests that for…