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Earlier this week, the ACLU and Disability Rights South Carolina announced they are suing the state over a law that bans school districts from requiring masks. Read the press release here. Read the complaint here. **** Yesterday, The Nation published my article on the core argument here, as expressed by two earlier lawsuits, one in …
I blogged the other day about the Hwang v KSU disability rights case. Here’s an actual disability rights lawyer, Claudia Center, for the ACLU on the case and others. Under established disability rights laws, a request for leave due to a disability must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis to decide whether the request would …
Several stories around the same themes. A black child is abused by guards or police in schools. There’s almost always a disability context. 1. A lawsuit alleges a 6-year-old black child in Chicago with “special needs” was handcuffed under a stair for over an hour to “teach her a fucking lesson.” The security guard at …