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March 13, 2018
Federal prosecutors have joined a lawsuit against the agency that runs New York City’s subway, accusing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of violating federal law for not making a renovated station accessible to people with disabilities.
March 13, 2018
The feds sued the MTA and NYC Transit Authority on Tuesday for renovating a Bronx subway station without making it accessible to the disabled.
March 13, 2018
PELHAM BAY – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is joining a complaint against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that claims a Bronx subway stop is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
March 13, 2018
Geoffrey S. Berman, President Donald Trump’s recently-appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, defied expectations that he will hew to his boss’s anti-civil rights agenda, filing suit on Tuesday against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
March 13, 2018
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District on Tuesday joined a pitched battle between disability rights advocates and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over subway accessibility.
March 13, 2018
Disability rights supporters are suing Lyft for allegedly not providing wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the Bay Area.
March 13, 2018
Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft.
March 13, 2018
When you request an Uber ride, you can swipe through options such as UberX, Pool, Black, SUV and WAV, which stands for “wheelchair accessible vehicle.” But according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday that is seeking class-action status, the wheelchair-accessible vehicles are rarely if ever available in San Francisco and Alameda counties.
March 13, 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc was sued on Tuesday by disability rights groups and wheelchair users accusing the ride-sharing company of violating New York City human rights laws by failing to make enough of its vehicles accessible to disabled people.
March 13, 2018
On March 13, 2018, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed a Complaint-in-Intervention in Bronx Independent Living Services, et al. v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, et. al, our case challenging the MTA’s failure to install elevators at its newly-renovated Middletown Road station. In this complaint and its accompanying press release, the … Continue reading » “US Department of Justice Joins DRA Suit Against the MTA”