Before anyone can file a suit alleging a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, they first have to exhaust administrative remedies. That means they have to file a claim with the EEOC first. In some cases, a plaintiff files a claim with the state discrimination authority and that claim gets cross filed with the
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Help wanted: ASL practitioners
By William Goren on
Posted in Title II
A fascinating case, Belton v. Georgia, 2012 WL 1080304 (N.D. Ga. March 30, 2012), recently came down from the northern district of Georgia. In this case, two people who were both deaf and suffered from mental illness sued the state of Georgia because the state of Georgia simply was not set up to accommodate…