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May 17, 2018
by Matthias Book via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Berkeley, CA (May 17, 2018)– Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), a national nonprofit legal center, filed a class action lawsuit against Stanford University today for violating the rights of students with mental health disabilities. Stanford routinely responds to student mental health crises by barring students from campus and … Continue reading » “Stanford University Systematically Violates the Rights of Students with Mental Health Disabilities”
April 27, 2018
For Immediate Release: April 27, 2018 New York, NY—A federal judge has ordered that a class be certified in a case brought by Disability Rights Advocates charging that the MTA violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it failed to install elevators during a 26.6 million dollar renovation of the Middletown Road subway station in the … Continue reading » “Class Certified in Elevator Access Case against MTA; Summary Judgment Motion Pending”
April 16, 2018
DRA’s Michelle Caiola featured in an article about MTA’s transit president’s subway ride-along with advocates.
April 10, 2018
A DOT rule allowing drivers to block curb ramps at unmarked crosswalks may conflict with laws that mandate access for people with disabilities, according to a local disability rights expert.
March 15, 2018
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March 15, 2018
If a person wants to drive for Uber or Lyft but doesn’t have a car, both ride-hailing companies steer them toward rental cars.
March 15, 2018
Lyft was sued by the Disability Rights Advocates (DRA), a nonprofit representing people with disabilities, in a class action lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the ride-sharing company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by failing to providing sufficient wheelchair-accessible cars in the San Francisco Bay Area.
