Please join us as we say farewell to our founders and inaugural Executive Directors Tim Fox and Amy Robertson. While we are pleased to have many reasons to keep in touch with Tim and Amy—friendships, co-counseling, and their ongoing board membership, to name a few—we recognize that this is the end of an era for…
2022 Disability Law United Internships!
Hello Disability Law United community! We are recruiting for spring and summer 2022 legal internship opportunities for our Accessibility Project and Immigrant Detention Accountability Project. Please check out the AP internship description here and the IDAP internship description here.
Job Openings: IDAP and AP Staff Attorneys
Hello Disability Law United community! We are recruiting for Staff Attorneys for the Immigration Detention Accountability Project and the Accessibility Project. Please check out the job listing here!
Welcome Renee!
This fall, the Immigration Detention Accountability Project will be working with extern Renee Payne! Renee is a 3L Public Interest Law Scholar at Northeastern University School of Law. She was an Associate Editor of the Northeastern University Law Review and a…
Our New Director of the Accessibility Project!
Disability Law United is proud to announce that Senior Staff Attorney Pilar Gonzalez Morales will become Director of the Accessibility Project beginning September 27. Pilar focuses on decarceration work at all levels, from jails to detention centers to mental health…
Disability Law United Board Announces New Executive Director
The Board of Directors of Disability Law United is thrilled to announce Martie Lafferty as Disability Law United’s new Executive Director, effective September 27, 2021. Martie succeeds founders and Co-Executive Directors Amy Robertson and Tim Fox, who will continue their…
Open Captioning Available for Phoenix Suns and Mercury Games at Footprint Center
Phoenix, AZ – Coming on the heels of this summer’s anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and as an important piece of its recent significant renovation efforts, The Footprint Center, in conjunction with Civil Rights Education & Enforcement Center (Disability…
Advocates Decry Biden Administration’s Appeal Fighting Order to Vaccinate Medically Vulnerable People in ICE Detention
Yesterday, the Biden Administration took the surprising step of filing an appeal to a federal court order requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to vaccinate medically vulnerable people in its custody. The filing was in Fraihat v. ICE, which…
Welcome Sam!
Our final extern welcome this summer is for Sam Becker! Sam is a rising 3L at Stanford Law School, where they are Co-Leader of the Immigration Pro Bono Project; Co-President of the Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights; Advocacy Chair for the Disability and Mental Health Network; and a Public Interest Fellow. Sam will be joining Disability Law…
People with Mobility Disabilities File Class Action Lawsuit against City of Baltimore
City’s curb ramps and sidewalks do not meet federal accessibility requirements. Three wheelchair users and the IMAGE Center of Maryland have filed a class action lawsuit alleging widespread and ongoing violations of federal accessibility requirements by the City of Baltimore…