Disability Scoop

States Decline To Drop Lawsuit Threatening Disability Rights Protections

As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability discrimination in health care, a long-simmering ...
JD Supra

Disability Discrimination Charges Involving Neurodivergence Are Rising, According to EEOC Data

Neurodiversity generally refers to medical conditions that cause the brain to function differently than the typical pattern. These conditions include autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ...
Mother Jones

Project 2025 Would Make Workplace Discrimination a Lot Easier

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...
USA Today

Why two conservative justices want courts to reconsider disability discrimination suits

WASHINGTON – Disability rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for students with disabilities to sue schools for damages. Not only did all the ...
Disability Scoop

Ed Department Sees Jump In Disability Discrimination Complaints In Schools

Complaints of disability discrimination in the nation’s schools are at their highest level in six years, the U.S. Department of Education says. A newly released annual report shows that the agency’s ...
The Conversation

Travellers with disability often face discrimination. What should change and how to complain

Kelsey Chapman receives research funding from the Queensland Government. She is a member of the Metro South Health Disability Community Advisory Committee and Health Translation Queensland. Elizabeth ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court Sides With Teenager in School Disability Discrimination Case

Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader protections for people with disabilities. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from ...
The Conversation

Here’s why we need a disability rights act – not just a disability discrimination one

David Roy does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Slate

This Supreme Court Decision Could Change the Lives of Millions of Students With Disabilities

Last month, in a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that students with disabilities will no longer face a higher legal standard when seeking justice for discrimination in schools—one ...
CNN

Supreme Court backs families fighting school district over disability discrimination

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Minnesota family that has been battling their local school district over the education of their daughter in a decision that could make it easier ...
MLive

Civil rights charge filed against McLaren over alleged disability discrimination

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has filed a formal charge of discrimination against McLaren Regional Medical Center Auxiliary alleging unequal service and failure to accommodate based on ...