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A Trend for City and County Jails? A federal judge approved a sweeping settlement on 3/23/2015 mandating improvements for inmates using wheelchairs and others with

On March 16, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals drove home that when it comes to jury instructions, the devil is inthe details. The court

The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure thatcities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the

Includes Key Decisions, Special Article on Harassment The EEOC on March 4, 2015 announced that the latest edition of its federal sector Digest of Equal

PAM Transport, Inc. has been ordered to pay 12 of its former truck drivers a total of $477,399 in a disabilitydiscrimination lawsuit brought by the

On Feb. 18, the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (also known as the U.S. AccessBoard), publicly released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)

Advocates for the deaf on 2/12/2015 filed federal lawsuits against Harvard and M.I.T., saying both universities violated anti-discrimination laws by failing to provide closed captioning

DOJ announced 2/3 that it reached settlement agreements under Title I of the ADA with the cities of DeKalb, Illinois;Vero Beach, Florida; Fallon, Nevada; and

Kmart Corporation will pay $102,048 and provide significant equitable relief to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit, the EEOC announced. According to the lawsuit, after

Quinnipiac University has settled allegations it violated the ADA when it placed a student on a mandatory medical leave after she was diagnosed with depression.