A disastrous series of childbirth issues that left Abbie Dorn in what some describe as a vegetative state with no possibility of recovery has now moved on, legally, from the…
An unusually liberal worker’s compensation system in California, as far as professional athletes are concerned, made the New York Times this week when the wife of…
A Colorado lawyer will pay $50,000 and his law firm will post a “Service Animals Welcome” sign to settle a Justice Department complaint that he refused to allow a brain-damaged…
The parents of a 17-year-old autistic youth who committed suicide last October claim in a lawsuit that his Georgia school district and its principal failed to prevent the bullying that…
An associate who claimed in a lawsuit that he suffered a breakdown partly because of “abusive conduct” by a partner at Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold included “scandalous” and irrelevant…
The scent of litigation success isn’t a sweet smell for at least one plaintiff who recently won a $100,000 settlement in a federal Americans with Disabilities Act discrimination case.
In a development that is drawing fire from management-side employment lawyers, the American Psychiatric Association wants binge eating and excess gambling to be considered psychiatric disorders.
A federal judge’s ruling last month that Stephanie Enyart must be allowed to use screen-reader software when taking the Multistate Bar Examination might not be the final answer for the…
A Texas man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he needs twice the time to take the Law School Admission Test because of his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Stephanie Enyart isn’t yet admitted in California, but the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law grad has already won what presumably is her first case.
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