We are very excited to announce that the Clinical Legal Education Association today presented the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and Disability Law United with an award for the recent settlement in Decoteau…
Daily Journal Selects Julie Wilensky as a 2016 Top Woman Lawyer in California
Julie Wilensky, Director of Disability Law United’s California Office, has been named to the Daily Journal‘s list of Top Women Lawyers in California for 2016. The Journal highlighted Julie’s successful work on behalf of same-sex spouses wrongfully denied spousal pension…
Disability Law United Comments on Sweeping Anti-LGBT Law in North Carolina
Disability Law United attorney Julie Wilensky was quoted in an article in Mother Jones and ProPublica on the far-reaching impact of the so-called “Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act,” North Carolina’s sweeping new anti-LGBT law that mandates discrimination against transgender…
Good Press Regarding the Decoteau Case
Our Decoteau case challenging the lack of outdoor exercise for inmates in solitary confinement at the Colorado State Penitentiary was the focus of an article on clinical legal education in The National Jurist. We love working with Civil Rights Clinic students…
Court Grants Final Approval of Hotel Transportation Settlement — Disability Law United v. Ashford Hospitality Trust
On March 22, 2016, Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval to a class action settlement in Disability Law United et al. v. Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. Ashford…
In U.S. v. Texas, Disability Law United Joins 325 Civil Rights, Immigration, and Community Groups Urging the Supreme Court to Let Immigration Relief Programs Go Forward
Brief features profiles of families whose lives would improve if immigration directives were allowed to take effect WASHINGTON — A diverse coalition of 326 immigration, civil rights, labor, and social service groups has filed an amicus (friend-of-the-court) brief with the…
UPDATE: SF Gay Widower’s Pension Lawsuit Resolved
Disability Law United and co-counsel National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Feinberg Jackson Worthman & Wasow LLP resolved a lawsuit brought by San Francisco gay widower Robert Pritchard against the IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39 Pension Plan. The pension plan…
Courts Grant Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlements in Cases Challenging Inaccessible Transportation at Hotels
In December 2015 and January 2016, two district courts in the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of class action settlements in cases involving accessible transportation at hotels. The cases, brought by Disability Law United, Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, and…
Press Coverage of Pritchard v. IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39 Pension Plan
A number of media outlets covered the filing of the complaint in Pritchard v. IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39 Pension Plan, which Disability Law United is litigating with co-counsel National Center for Lesbian Rights and Feinberg Jackson Worthman & Wasow…
The National Association of the Deaf and Gogo LLC Agree to Make Closed Captions Available on In-Flight Entertainment Systems
(Jan. 26, 2016) Deaf and hard of hearing airline passengers will soon have closed captioned, on-demand in-flight entertainment videos. The National Association of the Deaf (NAD), a non-profit civil rights organization of, by, and for deaf and hard of hearing individuals,…