Today, Disability Law United; the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Covington & Burling LLP; and the ACLU of Maryland filed a complaint with the United States Department of Transportation on behalf of the Baltimore City Chapter of the NAACP,…
Complaint Filed: California’s Medi-Cal Program Violates Latin@ Civil Rights
Disability Law United’s Bill Lee, along with attorneys from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Health Law Program, and Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman and Wasow LLP, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Disability Law United mourns the passing of Bruce Sattler
Disability Law United joins the ACLU of Colorado in mourning the passing of longtime civil liberties advocate Bruce Sattler. Bruce was Tim and my first opposing counsel when we started Fox & Robertson in 1996. He was smart, professional, and…
Outdoor Exercise Settlement Article in Westword!
This morning, Westword’s Alan Prendergast published an article about the settlement that the University of Denver’s Civil Rights Clinic and Disability Law United reached with the Colorado Department of Corrections last week. The online article focuses on the history of Colorado State Penitentiary,…
Alan Chen Joins Disability Law United Board
We are very excited to welcome Prof. Alan Chen as a new member of Disability Law United’s board of directors. Our newest board member is a distinguished professor of law and a nationally-recognized expert in constitutional law and civil rights…
University of Denver Civil Rights Clinic and Disability Law United Reach Groundbreaking Settlement with Department of Corrections
Prisoners in restrictive housing and close custody at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) have reached a settlement with Colorado prison officials that will provide outdoor exercise for those inmates for the first time since the prison’s construction in 1993. The…