Americans with Disabilities Act
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| Publication: Lawyers USA |
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Age Discrimination in Employment
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Age Discrimination
Fueled in part by an increase in age and disability discrimination claims, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received a record-high 99,947 charges of employment discrimination in fiscal 2011, the agency announced this week....
Business Journal
| Publication: Lawyers USA |
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Litigation
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Legal Services
A state could not be sued for damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act by a doctor who claimed that his medical license had been wrongly revoked, the 10th Circuit has ruled in...
Business Journal
Publication: Business Wire |
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Real Estate Investment Trusts
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Investment Pools & Funds
NEW YORK -- SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE: SLG), New York City's largest commercial office landlord, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire 10 East 53rd St., a 37-story, 390,000-square-foot...
Press Release
Publication: Business Wire |
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Students & Student Life
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Education & Training
Says Plan to Buy Nook E-readers Discriminates Against Blind Students BALTIMORE -- TheNational Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation's leading advocate for access to technology by the blind, announced today that it...
Press Release
Publication: Business Wire |
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Labor Departments
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Government Departments & Authorities
Arrivals strengthen firm's labor and employment capabilities CHICAGO -- The Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr LLP announced today that it has opened a Milwaukee office with the addition of partner Charles...
Press Release
Publication: Business Wire |
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Mergers & Acquisitions
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Ownership Changes
BETHESDA, Md. -- LaSalle Hotel Properties (NYSE:LHO) today announced that it acquired The Park Central Hotel in New York City for $396.2 million. The 934-room, urban, full service hotel is located on Seventh...
Press Release
Publication: Business Wire |
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Deafness
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Ear, Nose & Throat Disorders
Watch and Learn: Deaf and Hard of Hearing See a Brighter Future through Video LIVONIA, Mich. -- Career training reaches new heights as MedCerts, a Michigan-based proprietary school, introduces the first "watch and...
Press Release
| Publication: Workforce Management |
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Disabled Persons
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Disability & Society
Lex Frieden helped craft the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was born partly out of his 1984-88 service as director of the then-National Council on the Handicapped, as well as his own experience...
Business Journal
| Publication: Journal of Law and Education |
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Summary Judgment
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Trial & Procedure
Constitutional Claims and Civil Rights Student and parents sought review of summary judgment granted in favor of school district and college regarding violations of stuent's free exercise of religion and right to due...
Business Journal
| Publication: Journal of Law and Education |
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Primary Schools
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Primary & Secondary Education
I. INTRODUCTION: THE SUPREME COURT SETS A COLORBLIND PARADIGM . . .[I]n finding that a segregated law school for Negroes could not provide them equal educational opportunities, this Court relied in large part...
Business Journal
| Publication: Journal of Law and Education |
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Agency Rulemaking
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Government Procedure & Lawmaking
Articles Joseph P. Liu, Sports Merchandising, Publicity Rights, and the Missing Role of the Sports Fan, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 493 (2011). This article discusses how the current use of sports merchandising is...
Business Journal
| Publication: Journal of Law and Education |
Filed In:
Primary Schools
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Primary & Secondary Education
Articles Mark C. Weber, A New Look at Section 504 and the ADA in Special Education Cases, 16 Tex. J. on Civ. Liberties & Civ. Rights 1 (2010). The author argues that children...
Business Journal
| Publication: Journal of Law and Education |
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School Boards
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Education Administration
Thirty years old in 2012, Board of Education v. Rowley^ remains the Supreme Court's sole pronouncement on the meaning of the duty to provide appropriate education for children with disabilities. This duty is...
Business Journal
| Publication: Defense Counsel Journal |
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Litigation
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Legal Services
I. Background On September 25, 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 ("ADA Amendments").1 Proponents of the ADA Amendments argued the legislation was needed to breathe...
Business Journal
| Publication: Units |
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Housing Authorities
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Social Assistance Regulation & Policy
ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING AND ANTICIPATED ARTICLES of the year in units appears each January when the NAA staff works with NAA members to compile "What's In and What's Out" for the...
Business Journal
Publication: Units |
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Summary Judgment
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Trial & Procedure
THE MULTIFAMILY HOUSING industry scored a significant victory ill December when a judge rejected a claim that the only way to comply with federal accessibility regulations in designing and constructing properties is to...
Business Journal
| Publication: Units |
Filed In:
Disabled Access
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Disability & Society
These two significant pieces of federal legislation are vastly different. The irony is that where it might seem to make sense to think that the ADA would apply at apartment communities, it doesn't;...
Business Journal
| Publication: New Orleans CityBusiness |
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Vandalism
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Property Crimes
Nature has taken its toll on the former Lindy Boggs Medical Center in Mid-City, but man has been far more vicious. During a tour of the site, the light attached to site supervisor...
Business Journal
| Publication: Lawyers USA |
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Suits & Claims
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Trial & Procedure
A federal disability discrimination lawsuit was untimely, even though the plaintiff filed her complaint within 90 days of when her attorney received a right-to-sue letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the 2nd...
Business Journal
| Publication: Daily Journal of Commerce |
Filed In:
School Boards
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Education Administration
Recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission may be in tension with a new opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding an employer's duties under the Americans with Disabilities...
Business Journal
