DRA’s 2020 Gala
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A Letter From DRA’s Managing Directors and Board Chair
Dear DRA Supporters, Clients, and Friends, We know your inboxes are flooded with e-mails about COVID-19. We promise to keep this brief. During this national emergency, people with disabilities face an oversized adverse impact making DRA’s work as crucial as ever. DRA is built to last and we promise to persevere to protect the civil […]
Civil Rights Organizations Seek Emergency Court Ruling for Immediate COVID-19 Protections for People in Immigration Detention Centers
March 25, 2020 — RIVERSIDE, Calif. –– Early this morning, a group of civil rights legal organizations and their pro bono law firm partners filed an emergency application for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California seeking a court order requiring that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]
Disability Visibility Project
Ep 73: Housing
Court Preliminarily Approves Nationwide Settlement With Mobility Works, One Of Country’s Largest Providers of Wheelchair Accessible Vans
On March 6, 2020, Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a class action settlement with Mobility Works, one of the country’s largest providers of wheelchair accessible vans for sale or rent, and a major installer of adaptive devices for drivers with disabilities. If you are a driver with a disability […]
Gothamist
MTA’s Long History Of Being Sued Over Subway Accessibility
The City
MTA Could Make Many More Subway Stations Accessible, Study Finds
How Do We Celebrate 30 Years of the ADA?
A Letter From the Managing Directors Dear DRA Supporters, Clients and Friends, 2020 is here and we’re gearing up to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)—the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life. DRA, founded three years after the ADA was […]
Oral Argument – Center for Independence of the Disabled New York v. MTA (State)
Oral Argument on Appeal of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss for DRA’s state subways case at the New York State Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, 27 Madison Avenue. It will take place on Wednesday, March 11th from 2pm-3:30pm EST. The accessible entrance is located at 41 Madison Avenue on the 2nd Floor- you have to […]
Judge Finds NYPD Liable, Must Provide People with Disabilities Access to Police Stations
Ruling affirms and holds NYPD accountable for broad inaccessibility of police precinct stations Police department must include disability community as it works to eliminate barriers NEW YORK – A federal judge has issued a major ruling holding the New York City Police Department (NYPD) liable for discrimination against people with disabilities by shutting them out of police […]