Coverage Archive

CBS New York

March 9, 2017

A Quadriplegic Long Island woman sues medical facility over accessibility.

DNAinfo

January 31, 2017

LinkNYC only adds features for the blind after a lawsuit.

NJ.com

January 11, 2017

New Jersey has been sued over a shocking lack of special education for inmates.

NorthJersey.com

January 11, 2017

High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.

Newark Patch

January 11, 2017

Adult prisons in New Jersey are routinely violating the rights of incarcerated high school students with disabilities, with some teens getting no education whatsoever.

Brick Underground

November 16, 2016

Less than 20% of subway stations and 10% of curb cuts in NYC are accessible to people with mobility disabilities. DRA attorney Rebecca Rodgers says, “Twenty-six years after the ADA, there is simply no excuse.”

New York Post

October 27, 2016

More than half of New York City’s police stations aren’t accessible to people with mobility disabilities.

SF Gate

August 7, 2016

Larry died unexpectedly. He chose to leave life on his own terms while he was capable and before he experienced further medical crises.

New Mobility

August 3, 2016

One of the nation’s most influential disability rights lawyers, Larry Paradis, cofounder and executive director of Disability Rights Advocates, has passed away.

Daily Journal

August 3, 2016

Larry Paradis, the attorney and co-founder of Disability Rights Advocates who carved a pathway for the disabled in California through hundreds of class action lawsuits, died last week. He was 57.