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A Quadriplegic Long Island woman sues medical facility over accessibility.
A Quadriplegic Long Island woman sues medical facility over accessibility.
LinkNYC only adds features for the blind after a lawsuit.
New Jersey has been sued over a shocking lack of special education for inmates.
High school students with disabilities are getting a sub-par education or no education at all while doing time in adult prisons.
Adult prisons in New Jersey are routinely violating the rights of incarcerated high school students with disabilities, with some teens getting no education whatsoever.
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.”
More than half of New York City’s police stations aren’t accessible to people with mobility disabilities.
Larry died unexpectedly. He chose to leave life on his own terms while he was capable and before he experienced further medical crises.
One of the nation’s most influential disability rights lawyers, Larry Paradis, cofounder and executive director of Disability Rights Advocates, has passed away.
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.