Medical examiners must accommodate nursing mother 
Published: April 17, 2012
Tags: civil rights, equal rights, National Board of Medical Examiners, nursing, reasonable accommodation
Medical examiners were required to provide a nursing mother with additional break time when she took her medical licensing test, Massachusetts’ highest court has ruled in affirming judgment.
Hospital needn’t accommodate nurse’s fibromyalgia
Published: April 13, 2012
Tags: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, disability discrimination, fibromyalgia, reasonable accommodation
The Americans with Disabilities Act did not require a hospital to allow additional unplanned absences as an accommodation for a nurse’s fibromyalgia, the 9th Circuit has ruled in affirming a summary judgment.
City and school district settle ADA suit with former student
Published: September 21, 2011
Tags: ADA, California, high school, reasonable accommodation
The city of Lodi, Calif. and the Lodi Unified School District have each come to terms in a settlement agreement with a Tokay High graduate who complained that he was not provided reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act during his 2009 graduation ceremony at the Grape Bowl.
EEOC files 15 suits in 10 days
Published: September 7, 2011
Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, Discrimination, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, race discrimination, reasonable accommodation, sex harassment
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission didn’t stop to enjoy the last burst of summer, instead filing 15 discrimination suits over the last ten days of August.
EEOC explores leave as a reasonable accommodation
Published: July 1, 2011
Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, disability discrimination, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, reasonable accommodation
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently held a Commission meeting to evaluate the use of leave as a reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
Hearing impaired defendant adequately accommodated at trial
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: August 16, 2010
Tags: due process, reasonable accommodation
Measures employed to accommodate a criminal defendant’s partial hearing loss were reasonable and adequate and his constitutional rights were not violated because he failed to inform the court until his sentencing that he could not hear portions of the trial, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled.
Law associate can sue for wrongful discharge
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: disability discrimination, reasonable accommodation, wrongful discharge
A law associate’s wrongful discharge suit wasn’t time-barred, because she filed in a timely manner with respect to when she first received “unequivocal” notice that she would lose her job, the D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Spouse can sue under ADA for prison visit
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: December 29, 2009
Tags: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, civil rights, reasonable accommodation, Rehabilitation Act
An inmate’s wife who suffers from multiple sclerosis can sue the state department of corrections for allegedly failing to accommodate her disability in administering its inmate visitation program, the 2nd Circuit has ruled.
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