In April 2022, DRA filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a community college student and a class of people who use the West Los Angeles College (WLAC) campus and who have disabilities that make it difficult to navigate long distances, on uneven terrain, or on the inclines of the WLAC campus. Read the … Continue reading “Cline v. West Los Angeles College”
In September 2025, DRA and Latham & Watkins LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of four Chicagoland residents with mobility disabilities against the City of Chicago, challenging its widespread and ongoing failure to make its sidewalks, curb ramps, and other public pedestrian rights of way accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Plaintiffs allege … Continue reading “Lane v. City of Chicago”
In May 2025, DRA, Relman Colfax PLLC, and The Washington Lawyers’ Committee filed a critical public safety class action lawsuit against the District of Columbia on behalf of the DC Council of the Blind (DCCB) and five named plaintiffs. The complaint highlights systemic barriers that prevent blind and low vision pedestrians from safely crossing the … Continue reading “DC Council of the Blind v. District of Columbia”
In July 2024, on the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and four years before the Los Angeles Olympics, DRA filed a federal class action lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles for denying people with mobility disabilities full and equal access to the City’s newly constructed and renovated public park facilities, a … Continue reading “Griffin v. City of Los Angeles”
In August 2023, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) and Disability Rights California (DRC) released a report, “Youth in Crisis: How Kings County Locks Up Youth With Disabilities.” This report outlined findings from a multi-year investigation of the conditions at the Kings County Juvenile Center. Read the full report. DRA and DRC called on Kings County to … Continue reading “Disability Rights California v. Kings County Probation Department and Kings County Office of Education”
In June 2021, DRA, along with Disability Rights Maryland (DRM), Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) (now Disability Law United), and Dardarian Ho Kan & Lee, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Baltimore for its failure to properly install and maintain curb ramps and sidewalks that are accessible to and usable by people … Continue reading “Goodlaxson v. Baltimore”
Dayniah Manderson, a tenured English teacher with over 15 years of teaching experience in New York City public schools, uses an electric wheelchair and has been unable to use a restroom at her middle school building in the Bronx for the past 13 years due to the New York City Department of Education (DOE)’s failure … Continue reading “Manderson v. New York City Department of Education”
In July 2024, a federal judge ordered West Los Angeles College (WLAC), part of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), to restore a transportation assistance system to provide access for two disabled student plaintiffs, Charles Guerra and Karlton Bontrager, to WLAC’s steep, hilly campus by the start of the Fall 2024 semester. This case … Continue reading “Guerra v. West Los Angeles College”
In November 2019, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Plaintiffs Tanya Jackson and Center for Independence of the Disabled New York (CIDNY) against Queens Borough Public Library, The Board of Trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library, and the City of New York, challenging the inaccessibility of Hunters Point … Continue reading “Jackson v. Queens Borough Public Library”
In September 2019, DRA and Proskauer Rose LLP, on behalf of the American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago and three individual plaintiffs, filed a landmark class action lawsuit against the City of Chicago. The lawsuit alleged that Chicago ignores blind pedestrians in its pedestrian planning, ignoring their safety needs and sometimes actively making … Continue reading “American Council of the Blind of Metropolitan Chicago vs. City of Chicago”