An 83-year-old former prosecutor and three other claimed ringleaders in a massive New York City disability fraud case face new conspiracy charges, and dozens more defendants are being arrested concerning…
An activist law professor who spent three weeks in a Rwandan jail has filed a lawsuit claiming he was wrongly barred from campus because of his post-traumatic stress disorder.
Asking would-be lawyers standard questions about their mental health, including their history of diagnosis and treatment, could violate the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the civil rights division of…
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave CNN a partial victory in a suit demanding it provide closed-captioning on all videos posted on its website, but then…
A yearlong national survey showed a “disturbing” amount of discrimination against deaf and hard-of-hearing would-be renters and led to the filing of nine federal fair-housing administrative complaints by advocacy groups…
A professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago claims the law school failed to accommodate his depression and Asperger’s syndrome when he was barred from campus in October after…
Dozens of retired New York City police officers and a handful of retired firefighters were among 106 people charged Tuesday by the Manhattan district attorney with committing one of the…
A Los Angeles judge has ordered Bingham McCutchen to pay $2,430 as a sanction for slow discovery in a suit by a former associate who claims the firm failed to…
Unsure how to curb frequent 911 calls by a system “super user,” Washington, D.C., officials met earlier this year to discuss a solution. Their decision: Seek a guardianship to handle…
When Kenneth “Bryan” Goodwin was injured in a 2011 accident, his wheelchair was stolen while he was being treated at a San Francisco hospital. He made a claim against the…
Richard Bernstein was training for a marathon when he was hit by a bicyclist in Central Park in August 2012, breaking his left hip and sending him to the hospital…
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