Before getting started on the blog entry of the day, I wanted to point out that the White House issued a memorandum detailing how agencies should go about Internet accessibility. The document, which can be found here, is basically a best practices guide for executive agencies with respect to their Internet sites. Of particular
Hamer v. City of Trinidad
When Does Statute of Limitations Begin to Run in Failure to Accommodate Cases and What is the Burden of Proof
Before getting started on the blog entry for the week, breaking news today. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving tester standing involving serial plaintiff Deborah Laufer. We discussed the case here in a blog entry that correctly predicted that the Supreme Court would hear the case. Now if only my predictive abilities…
Repeated Violations Doctrine
This is a situation I see all the time. Let’s say you are at a university. A student goes to disability services, gets an accommodation plan, even gives it to the teacher. The teacher resists. The student may or may not try to fix it until later in the semester figuring that something will develop.…
What’s a Program and Whose Program Is It?
Today’s blog entry is a two-for-one. First, we are going to update several other blog entries with recent developments. Then, we have the case of the week, Ashby v. Warrick County School Corporation, a decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana that came down on February 7, 2018.…
2017 Understanding the ADA Greatest Hits
It is time for the top 10 plus three of 2017. For the most part, the greatest hits, but not of all of their order of popularity stayed the same from 2016 to 2017, except for one entry (negligence per se dropped out of the top 10 and was replaced by the history of ADA…
Just When Does the Statute of Limitations BEGIN to Run in ADA Cases
I hope everyone is having a happy holiday season. In Atlanta, we got a few inches of snow. So, my daughter was outside playing in the snow and having snowball fights with her friends. She even got in a couple of snowballs thrown at me. The nice thing about it being in Atlanta was that…