A California lawyer has filed a civil rights suit against a Miami Beach hotel that she says was unable to accommodate her wheelchair despite advertising itself as disabilities-compliant.
An Illinois lawyer failed a mentally disabled teenager he was defending in a first-degree murder case by not seeking to prove that Melvin Newman was unfit for trial, a federal…
Two Colorado cities have done enough to accommodate the disabled owners of pit bull dogs that are also service animals, a federal judge in Denver has ruled.
Jenny Hatch won’t have to live in a group home after a Virginia judge on Friday rejected a bid by her mother and stepdad to designate them as guardians.
Residents of Vietnam, like American soldiers, apparently have been adversely affected by some 20 million gallons of Agent Orange used there by the U.S. Air Force as a defoliant before…
A group of Starbucks customers claim in a federal lawsuit that employees at two of the coffee shop’s New York locations ridiculed deaf patrons and refused to serve them.
After a threat by a disability rights group that it would bring suit if officials didn’t take action, immediate renovation is planned of the aging, malfunctioning elevators in Mississippi’s Hinds…
Like any ordinary couple, Paul Forziano, 30, and Hava Samuels, 36, were looking forward to sharing a home of their own after they got married in April.
A federal jury in Iowa has awarded $240 million to compensate 32 mentally disabled men who claimed mistreatment while working at a turkey processing plant.
An Oklahoma school district that placed a special education student in a “timeout room” to stop his unruly behavior did not violate his constitutional rights, a federal appeals court has…
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