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New York DOCS Sick Leave Policy Violates ADA by The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York held that a New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) sick leave policy requiring employees to provide general diagnoses following certain absences from work violated the Americans With Disabilities Act …
Prisoner Regarded as Having Impairment Entitled to ADA and RA Protection by A Massachusetts federal district court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act (RA) applies to prisoners suffering from a heart condition and diabetes. The prisoner's suit alleged he was denied participation in educational …
Disabled Prisoner Claim Not Actionable Under Federal Civil Rights Action by State prisoner Timothy Reaves filed a State court action alleging claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the U.S. and Massachusetts Constitutions. Reaves is a quadriplegic with a brain injury suffered in a …
Prisoner Has No Right to Medication Accommodation by Bob Williams On de novo review, the Maine Supreme Court held that Jon Scott, a prisoner in Androscoggin County Jail, failed to establish actionable state court claims under the Maine Human Rights Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act …
Color Blind Bus Driver Not Disabled Under ADA by A city bus driver disqualified from driving city buses based on color blindness was not disabled within the meaning of the ADA because he was not substantially limited in the major life activity of seeing and was therefore not disabled under …
Releasing Disabled Prisoner into Cold Weather Upheld by The plaintiff alleged that he was released in January into freezing cold temperatures without a coat or a ride home, despite his disability. The plaintiff's ADA claim is dismissed based on sovereign immunity, since Title II of the ADA is not congruent …
No Authority for ADA to Prohibit Fee for Disabled Parking Placards by The Commerce Clause does not empower Congress, via Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, to prohibit a $2.00 charge for placards authorizing the use of parking spaces reserved for the disabled. The court prescribes an "as …
Article • May 15, 2007
ADA Injunctions Allowed Under 11th Amendment by State officials can be sued in their official capacities for injunctive relief under the ADA notwithstanding the Eleventh Amendment. The court declines to decide the constitutionality of the statute on an interlocutory appeal from the denial of Eleventh Amendment immunity. See: McCarthy v. …
$275,000 Paid In Excessive-Force Michigan Jail Death Lawsuit by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On May 25, 2006, Kent County, Michigan agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $275,000 brought by the family of a Grand Rapids man who died of a heart attack suffered after struggling with …
Galloway v TYC, TX, 3rd Amended Complaint, juveniles disabilities legal aid assault, 2007 EXHIBIT “A” UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS JOSEPH GALLOWAY, individually, § § DANA BROCKWAY, as next friend of her § minor child, A.B., on behalf of all those similarly § situated, § § GLORIA …
New Hampshire Prisoner’s ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment by New Hampshire Prisoner's ADA Claim Survives Summary Judgment The First Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a New Hampshire federal district court's summary judgment order concluding that a prisoner failed to demonstrate that prison officials violated his rights under Title II …
Armstrong v Schwarzenegger, CA, Injunction, deaf disabled prisoner ad seg, 2007
Brief • October 30, 2006
Cordero v DOC, CA, Order of dismissal, medical care denial ADA, 2005 se 1:05-cv-00268-0WW-DLB Document 37 Filed 10/30/2006 Page 1 of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 DANIEL CORDERO, 12 Plaintiff, 13 14 v. CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF …
Ninth Circuit Holds Prisons Not Immune In ADA and RA Suit by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that state prisons are not entitled to Eleventh Amendment immunity from suits brought by prisoners under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Billy Ray Phiffer, an Oregon state prisoner, filed suit …
SJ Reversed on Delaware Detainee Triple-Celling Claim; Due Process, Not Eighth Amendment Controls by The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Delaware District Court improperly analyzed a conditions of confinement claim brought by pre-trial detainees under the Eighth Amendment, rather than the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth …
Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter Scandal, Suicides, Corruption and Abuse Abound at New York Citys Rikers Island Jail by Gary Hunter When Rikers Island was purchased in 1884 it was only 87 acres. The city of New York made …
NYDOCS Abandons ADA DOJ Exhaustion Defense by Upon the request of prison officials, the Second Circuit Court Of Appeals vacated a district courts dismissal of an action brought by New York prisoners, for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Several of New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) prisoners brought …
Supreme Court: Prisoners' ADA Right to Sue for Damages Trumps State's Sovereign Immunity by by John E. Dannenberg The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the private cause of action created by the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) (42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq.), which permits disabled state prisoners …
Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of ADA Suit for Failure to Exhaust by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a district court erred in dismissing a California prisoners suit for failing to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, (PLRA). Earl Butler, …
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