Disability Law United is thrilled and honored to receive a 2017 Visionaries in Action Award from The GLBT Community Center of Colorado (The Center)! In notifying us of the award, The Center’s Board Chairman, J. Ryann Peyton wrote that The…
Prison Outdoor Exercise Settlement Gets Final Approval and Some Good Press
Last Wednesday, Judge William Martínez granted final approval to the class action settlement in Decoteau v. Raemisch following a half-day hearing at which two named plaintiffs and several objectors spoke. (The Judge also indicated that a written opinion would be forthcoming.) This…
Disability Law United Helps Client Obtain Reimbursement for Gender-Affirming Surgery
Today, Disability Law United announced a resolution for client Kendrick W., a transgender employee of a Bay Area start-up company who was denied insurance coverage for transition-related surgery due to an exclusion in his employer’s health insurance plan. Kendrick contacted Disability…
Settlement Underscores Requirement that Covenants and HOAs make Reasonable Accommodations
Disability Law United is pleased to announce that the Lofland family will be able to park the special needs recreational vehicle — so essential to their son’s therapy and well-being — next to their house in Larkspur, and to build…
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…
Disability Law United resolves CCRD charge alleging harassment based on sexual orientation and religion.
Crystal Rea and IntelliTec Colleges Reach Agreement College Reaffirms Importance of Non-Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Religion GRAND JUNCTION, CO – Crystal Rea and IntelliTec Colleges have reached an agreement that will continue to ensure that IntelliTec students receive…
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…
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…
Gay Widower Sues San Francisco Bay Area Union Pension Plan for Refusing to Provide Survivor Benefits After His Husband Died
Today, the widower of a hotel telecommunications engineer in San Francisco sued the IUOE Stationary Engineers Local 39 Pension Plan and its Board of Trustees for refusing to provide him with a spousal pension benefit required by the terms of…