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Able News Column – July 2024: The ADA and DRA: Symbiotic Changemaking
Amityville Record: Amityville LIRR Riders Get a Little ‘Lift’
WKRN Nashville: Federal Judge Rules TN Department of Correction Violated ADA
Tennessee Lookout: TDOC on the Hook
Nashville Tennessean: Deaf Prisoners in TN Lacked Interpreters, Videophones in Violation of ADA, Judge Rules
Federal Judge Finds Tennessee Department of Correction in Violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act for Failing to Provide Sign Language Interpreters and Videophones to Deaf Prisoners
July 11, 2024—Nashville, Tennessee—Earlier this week, a federal judge in the Middle District of Tennessee granted partial summary judgment to multiple plaintiffs finding that the Tennessee Department of Correction violated federal law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, by failing to provide sign language interpreters in connection with prison … Continue reading “Federal Judge Finds Tennessee Department of Correction in Violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act for Failing to Provide Sign Language Interpreters and Videophones to Deaf Prisoners”