June 18, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Americans With Disabilities Act

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Rhode Island City Reaches Settlement Over Disabled Rights

AP | ERIKA NIEDOWSKI | Posted 06.14.2013 | Politics

Read More: Rhode Island American With Disabilities Act, Rhode Island Disabled, Americans With Disabilities Act, Americans With Disabilities Act Rhode Island, Rhode Island Disabled Rights, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Disability Rights, Americans With Disabilities Act Violations, Politics News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The federal government has reached a settlement with Rhode Island and the city of Providence for violating the rights of the ...

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Town, State Hit For Wrongly Segregating Disabled

AP | ERIKA NIEDOWSKI | Posted 06.13.2013 | Politics

Read More: Rhode Island Disabled, Harold H. Birch Vocational School, Americans With Disabilities Act, Angel Taveras, Training Through Placement, Segregation, Rhode Island, Disabled Segregated, Providence, Politics News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island and the city of Providence violated the rights of the developmentally disabled for years by unnecessarily segreg...

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Ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

Caryl M. Stern | Posted 06.05.2013 | Impact

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Children With Disabilities, Unicef, Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, Crpd, Impact News

This critical international human rights treaty would give people with disabilities across the globe the same of kind protections afforded to U.S. citizens by the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Study: The Poorest Disabled Americans Are Priced Out Of Housing Market

The Huffington Post | Caroline Fairchild | Posted 05.22.2013 | Business

Read More: Disabled Americans, Americans With Disabilities Act, Housing Market, Disabled Housing, Disability Rights, Disability, Disability Benefits, Affordable Housing, Business News

Federal assistance provided to the poorest disabled Americans is less than sufficient, leaving some disabled Americans unable to afford a place to liv...

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Hollister Clothing Unfriendly To Disabled: Judge

AP | STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 05.22.2013 | Denver

Read More: U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel, Hollister Disabilities, Americans With Disabilities Act, Abercrombie and Fitch, Denver Colorado, Denver News, Disability-Issues, Hollister, Denver News

DENVER — A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC after ruling earlier th...

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Jackson Avenue Heats Up Near The Port Of New Orleans

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.19.2013 | Business

Read More: Shaare Tefilah Synagogue, Brown Builders, Truck & Barter Farms, Magazine Street, Wayne Brown, Flooding, Streelights, St. Thomas Housing Development, Urban Gardens, Parasol's Bar and Restaurant, Dorignac's, Americans With Disabilities Act, Coleman Cab Company, Cruise Ship Parking, Jackson Avenue Evangelical Congregational Church, Monroe Coleman, Potholes, Angel Hurtado, Hurricane Katrina, Walmart, River Garden, American Paint Works, London Metal Exchange, New Orleans Dept. Of Safety and Permits, Marlon Horton, Streetcars, Machu Picchu Travel, New Orleans City Council, MTMA NOLA, Gregg Morris, Restaurants, River of Life Hospital, Finger Lickin' Wings, Kickstarter, ReNEW SciTech Academy, Josephine Loft Apartments, Irish Channel, HRI Properties, Sara Mayo Hospital, Gretna Ferry, Mississippi River, Business News

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 20, 2013 edition.) New Orleans resident Barbara Risin has lived in the first block ...

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Abercrombie Brand Hollister Violating Disabilities Act: Denver Judge

The Colorado Independent | Susan Greene | Posted 05.17.2013 | Denver

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Denver News, U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel, Hollister Disabilities, Abercrombie and Fitch, Denver Colorado, Disability-Issues, Hollister, Denver News

From The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene. A Denver-based federal judge has ruled that the entrances to hundreds of Hollister stores nationwide ...

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Rule Bans Newlyweds From Living Together

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 05.07.2013 | Weddings

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Disabled People, Disabled-Rights, Marriage Rights, Developmental Disability, Newlyweds, Wedding-for-Disabled-Couple, Weddings, Weddings News

PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. — With the beaming smiles of newlyweds, Paul Forziano and Hava Samuels hold hands, exchange adoring glances and complete ea...

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Let's Help 'Spread the Word to End the Word'

Naba Sharif, M.D. | Posted 05.13.2013 | DC

Read More: Spread the Word to End the Word, Americans With Disabilities Act, Mental Disabilities, Disabilities, R-Word, DC News

When I hear the word "retarded" used to describe someone or something that is unintelligent, silly or even as a filler word when another adjective doesn't suffice, it literally makes me cringe.

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Meet Guy: A Great Guy With a Great Job!

Pacific Diversified Services | Posted 04.06.2013 | Impact

Read More: Living With Autism, Americans With Disabilities Act, Disabilities, Disability Rights, Jobraising Challenge, Jobs, Developmental Disability, Autism, Impact News

A park surrounds the municipal pool where Guy works, so it's easy for him to take his daily count of his favorite bird while he works site maintenance. Guy does all the stuff here that the full-timers rarely have time to do.

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UNC Faces Discrimination Complaint From Sexual Assault Survivors

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.26.2013 | College

Read More: Equal Opportunity Mandates, Annie Clark Unc, Americans With Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act, Title IX, University of North Carolina, Landen Gambill, Unc, Sexual Assault, Andrea Pino, Video, Melinda Manning, Unc Sexual Assault, Unc Sexual Assault Survivors, Unc Ocr Complaint, UNC Chapel Hill, Clery Act, Ferpa, College News

On March 10, 2012, Andrea Pino says she was raped at an off-campus party. She wasn't drunk and was only there to look after a friend, but because she ...

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The Difficult Issue of Attractiveness Discrimination

Brad Reid | Posted 03.12.2013 | Business

Read More: Business News, Attractiveness, Americans With Disabilities Act, Stereotyping, Employment-at-Will, Employment Discrimination, Appearance, Business News

Civil rights judicial decisions have prohibited gender-stereotyping in the workplace. Should appearance and attractiveness stereotyping become a part of this doctrine?

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Getting People With Disabilities the Jobs They Need

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi | Posted 02.10.2013 | Politics

Read More: Jobs, Congress, Disability, Crpd, United Nations, Americans With Disabilities Act, Governor Jack Markell, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Convention on the RIghts of People With Disabilities, Politics News

Sadly, despite the fact that America passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) twenty-two years ago, Americans with disabilities are no more likely to be employed today than they were before the ADA was the law of the land.

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Shame! 38 Republican Senators Vote 'No' on the UN Treaty Banning Discrimination Against People With Disabilities

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Mitch McConnell, United States Senate, Republicans, Tom Harkin, Bob Dole, Politics News

This treaty didn't change any American laws. It merely asked that all other nations move toward laws for people with disabilities that would equal the Americans with Disabilities Act that we first passed in 1990.

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Republicans Block Disability Rights -- Which Would Not Cost a Nickel

Don C. Reed | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Senate, Disability, Americans-With-Disabilities-Act, President Barack Obama, Bob Dole, Politics News

In what appears another "say no to anything from the White House" move, Senate Republicans blocked a United Nations treaty which could have helped dis...

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US: Senate Misses Opportunity on Disability Convention

Human Rights Watch | Posted 02.04.2013 | World

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, United Nations, World News

Ratification Vote for Treaty Falls Short (Washington, DC) – The United States missed an opportunity to display global leadership on disability ...

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GOP Opposition Downs Treaty Despite Support Of McCain, Other Republicans

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 02.03.2013 | Politics

Read More: Disabled, Americans With Disabilities Act, Video, John McCain, UN Disability Treaty, Disability Treaty, John Kerry, Disability Rights, Bob Dole, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Led by Republican opposition, the Senate on Tuesday rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled that is modeled after...

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It's the American Way: One Ordinary Woman Builds Equal Opportunity for Disabled Children

Suzanne Skees | Posted 12.03.2012 | Impact

Read More: Americans With Disabilities Act, Building for Generations, Disability, Disabilities and Poverty, Disability Awareness, Children With Disabilities, Disability and Poverty, International Day for Persons With Disabilities, International Day for Persons With Disabilities 2012, Video, Impact News

One billion people have a disability, so you might wonder why we don't set aside more than one day a year to pay attention. Wherever we are in the world, we've seen it. One woman, with no money or training, decided to put an end to it.

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The Story Behind The Sessions

SnagFilms | Posted 12.17.2012 | Arts

Read More: William H. Macy, Americans With Disabilities Act, Polio, Sundance Film Festival, John Harkes, Breathing, Handicap, Hollywood, The Sessions, John Hawkes the Sessions, Arts News

This Friday, The Sessions, starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy, will be released, beginning what is likely a path towards multiple Oscar nominations.

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Too Fat To Work? Advocates Debate Whether Obesity Is Disability

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.04.2012 | Business

Read More: Obesity in the Workplace, Obesity Discrimination, Video, Americans With Disabilities Act, Workplace Discrimination, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Gastric Bypass, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in America, Americans With Disabilities, Obesity, Obesity Disability, Eeoc, Fat Discrimination, Business News

"I've been a fat person all my life," said Peggy Howell, 65, of Las Vegas, Nevada. "I went from being a chubby kid to a fat teenager to a fat adult." ...

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Did Bank Of America Really Do That?

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 09.21.2012 | Business

Read More: Daniel Herrmann, Emily Town, Merrill Lynch, Disabled, Americans With Disabilities Act, Pennsylvania, Workplace Discrimination, Bank of America Lawsuit, Merrill Lynch Bank of America, Bank of America, Lawsuit, Video, Business News

Daniel Herrmann, whose right hand, arm and leg were disabled in a car accident, had a good thing going at Merrill Lynch. The company gave him a left-h...

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Disabled and Disenfranchised

Rebecca Schleifer | Posted 11.05.2012 | Politics

Read More: Disabled, Americans With Disabilities Act, Poverty, Shadow Conventions 2012, Voting Rights, Shadow Conventions, Help America Vote Act, Poverty in America, Politics News

State efforts to restrict voting access have dominated election news this year. What hasn't been mentioned in is their discriminatory impact on people with disabilities.

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Teacher-Turned-Stripper Sues Michigan School District Over Firing

Posted 08.30.2012 | Home

Read More: West Ottawa High School, Americans With Disabilities Act, Disability Discrimination Act, Gender Discrimination, West Ottawa Public Schools, Susan Brennan, Michigan Teacher Fired, Michigan Schools, Teachers, Michigan Teachers, Strippers, School Lawsuits, Stripper-Turned-Teacher, School Lawsuit, Video, Home News

Susan Brennan, a former West Ottawa High School teacher, has filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against the Michigan district, claiming...

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