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24 May 2023, 5:16 pm
A newly announced Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) settlement agreement with a medical practice manager business associate highlights the need for health plans and other HIPAA covered entities ensure servers are properly secured and that that they and every third party administrator, technology, audit, accounting and other plan service provider with access to protected health… [read post]
22 May 2023, 5:16 am
From participating in chats and meetings in which they advocated for the use of force to stop the certification of the election, to transporting weapons across the country to stage around our nation’s capital in support of this objective, these defendants intentionally helped to set the stage for January 6. [read post]
19 May 2023, 1:16 pm
” Voters with disabilities, like every American citizen, should have the same right and equal opportunity to vote. [read post]
18 May 2023, 9:05 pm
The EEOC specified that long COVID, a condition distinct from COVID-19, may qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act and necessitate accommodations, such as quiet workspaces, rest breaks, flexible schedules, and alternative lighting. [read post]
17 May 2023, 11:05 am
Updated guidance published by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) warns employers that the end of the COVID-19 health care emergency did not automatically end employers’ responsibilities to provide accommodations granted during the COVID-19 health care emergency, to consider new requests for accommodation from applicants or employees claiming disability from COVID-19 or other pandemic related conditions, or to comply with the medical confidentiality,… [read post]
17 May 2023, 6:00 am
Environmental justice, an area in which issues of both race and disability are salient and affect one another, is one such context in which advocates have tried to use the ADA to challenge broader structural harm. [read post]
17 May 2023, 12:10 am
At a self-described American Kennel Club breeder in Nebraska (Brenda Carroll/Carroll Sell Farms), inspectors found a bleeding dog and another matted with feces. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:30 pm
The result, in Berman's assessment, was to reinforce a “conservative turn” in American politics--even though “the most important advocates for the economic style in governance consistently came from the center-left” (TLE 13, 19). [read post]
15 May 2023, 1:54 pm
Stamer has worked extensively domestically and internationally with business, government and community leaders to prepare for and deal with pregnancy, disability and other discrimination, leave, health and safety, and other workforce, employee benefit, health care and other operations planning, preparedness and response for more than 35 years. [read post]
15 May 2023, 9:12 am
| Scholars advocate reforming and regulating school funding schemes to grant reparations to Black Americans. [read post]
15 May 2023, 6:05 am
For decades, communities of color and civil rights advocates have sought rules that fully ban biased profiling by federal agencies. [read post]
7 May 2023, 9:05 pm
And Judy was not only a force of nature in politics: She was also skilled at bringing people together and mentoring many disability advocates. [read post]
5 May 2023, 12:04 pm
We advocate for the housing rights of domestic and sexual violence survivors, who are too often evicted because of the violence they experience, especially when they are women of color. [read post]
5 May 2023, 7:30 am
The answer is surprising even to police (Anita Chabria, LA Times) Disability Programs At Risk In Federal Budget Battle, Advocates Warn (Michelle Diament, DisabilityScoop) Righting Wrongs: How Civil Rights Can Protect Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Against Racism (Stop AAPI Hate) Photographer’s decade-long, 600,000-mile journey shows Indigenous life in new book (Melissa Block, NPR) If there are any attorneys or law students who identify as Black,… [read post]
4 May 2023, 3:14 pm
Stamer also has worked domestically and internationally as an advisor to business, community and government leaders on health, severance, disability, pension and other workforce, health care and other reform, as well as regularly advises and defends organizations about the design, administration and defense of their organization’s workforce, employee benefit and compensation, safety, discipline and other management practices and actions. [read post]
3 May 2023, 7:18 am
Organizations deciding to continue requiring vaccination will need to design their program to appropriately accommodate disability and religious concerns of employees in accordance with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules. [read post]
1 May 2023, 12:27 pm
Additionally, employers also are reminded that autism and other developmental and neurological disorders also generally qualify as disabilities qualify for protection against discrimination and require accommodation under the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”). [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
Mike Lindell’s Firm Told to Pay $5 Million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ Election-Fraud Challenge MSN – Chris Dehghanpoor, Emma Brown, and Jon Swaine (Washington Post) | Published: 4/20/2023 MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell claimed he had data showing Chinese interference in American elections and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year’s U.S. election. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 8:23 pm
Murphy had already refuted this argument – the American people did not choose machine guns, which thus did not come into common use. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 9:44 am
But disability advocates insist Johnson is just trying to make the world more accessible for people like him who rely on wheelchairs to get around. [read post]
