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15 Dec 2009, 12:22 pm by The Editors
One example of a protected class impacted by these zoning ordinances, are individuals with disabilities who currently reside in one out of three occupied cottages. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 12:45 pm
”  These questions impose burdens on applicants with disabilities that people without disabilities do not endure. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 7:52 am by Alex Hunt
Here’s a look at today’s top stories affecting children’s rights, juvenile justice, and education: Texas Districts Flagged for Suspending Students With Disabilities, Education Week Disability Rights Texas has flagged 30 districts for disproportionately using out-of-school suspensions to punish students with disabilities. [read post]
29 Jan 2020, 8:37 am by Gregory Dell
This case highlights the importance of having the right information and arguments, even at the very first level of your long-term disability application. [read post]
5 Nov 2020, 11:31 am by Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
“This is a great time for employers to review their policies and determine their goals in enforcing a drug-free workplace policy that doesn’t interfere with the employees’ rights outside the workplace or created by disability,” Roselle says. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 9:16 am by Courtney Bowie, Racial Justice Program
In the 1940s, after President Truman passed civil rights legislation, it might as well have been 1861 for black people in Oxford, Mississippi. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 1:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
On October 25, 2017, Congress heard moving testimony from Frank Stephens, a disability-rights activist who himself has Down syndrome. [read post]
29 Dec 2022, 10:14 am by David Whitaker and Shearil Matthews
ADA Background In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA or Act”).[1] The purpose of the Act is to provide protection and certain rights for Americans with disabilities. [read post]
1 May 2015, 9:54 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi denied the EEOC’s request to be allowed to inspect and observe the defendant’s facility in an Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) action. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 12:34 pm by Amy Howe
Casey, holding that the Constitution protects the right to have an abortion before the fetus can survive outside the womb. [read post]
However, Employers, as private property owners, largely retain the right to continue enforcing the COVID-19 precautions they have put in place. [read post]
28 May 2013, 11:20 am by Lyle Denniston
   It interferes with the states’ sovereign powers under the Tenth Amendment, Mississippi argued, to deprive a state of the right to pursue in its own state courts a remedy for residents harmed by illegal actions by corporations. [read post]
4 Mar 2023, 4:13 am by jonathanturley
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) (unratified) The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (unratified) The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC),188 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Olivia Nuzzi] Tags: cellphones, Connecticut, disabled rights, forfeiture, lawyering vs. privacy, Mississippi, Ohio, public health, schools, Sheldon Silver, traffic lawsFebruary 19 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
15 Jul 2013, 8:52 am by Rekha Arulanantham
  In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last month striking down a crucial provision of the federal Voting Rights Act, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas all announced that they will be implementing punitive photo ID laws. [read post]
25 Apr 2016, 11:03 am by Legal Talk Network
Katie also litigated civil rights cases prior to entering academia full time, and secured a number of precedents in the Third Circuit expanding the legal rights of LGBT and disabled employees. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 10:09 am by Suzanne Ito
It would be a victory for fiscal prudence as well as human rights. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 1:04 pm by By Joshua Block, LGBT Project
The decision is a timely reminder why Congress needs to finally pass the Student Non-Discrimination Act to formally extend explicit protections to LGBT students like those that already exist for harassment based on race, sex, disability, and other characteristics. [read post]