Disability Law United filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on behalf of Sulieto Domingo, a former DLU client, after the agency failed to meet its statutory deadline to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request…
Kaylin Footman v. County of Sacramento
Disability Law United filed a lawsuit against the Sacramento Police Department, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Jim Cooper, three individual officers, and Sacramento County Emergency Medical Services on behalf of Kaylin Footman, a Sacramento elementary school teacher who was…
Elissa Daher, as administrator of the Estate of Jaime Naranjo v. County of Sacramento and Jim Cooper, In His Official Capacity as County Sacramento Sheriff
Disability Law United filed a California Public Records Act lawsuit against Sacramento County and Sheriff Jim Cooper on behalf of Lisa Daher, the widow and estate administrator of Jaime Naranjo, who was fatally shot by a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy…
White v. Sacramento Police Department
Disability Law United, along with co-counsel Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, brought a case against the City of Sacramento and Sacramento Police Department for their use of discriminatory and violent tactics toward racial justice…
Effective Communication for Deaf People in Prison and Law Enforcement Encounters
Detention – whether in jail or prison – can be dangerously isolating. For Deaf or hard of hearing (“DHOH”) people it can be devastating. And encounters between DHOH people and law enforcement can be confusing at best; fatal at worst. …
Anderson v. Colorado and Decoteau v. Raemish
In these two companion cases, Disability Law United and co-counsel successfully challenged the lack of outdoor exercise for prisoners in administrative segregation in the Colorado Department of Corrections.