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…
Disability Law Unitedster Julie Wilensky Presents at PELA Brown Bag
Julie Wilensky, Director of Disability Law United’s California office, and Jacob Richards of Keller Rohrback, LLP presented at a brown bag sponsored by Colorado’s Plaintiff Employment Lawyer Association on the subject of Advocating for the Rights of LGBT Employees. The…
Presenting at Access and Ability’s Northern Colorado Leadership Gathering
I got to do one of my favorite things today: teach about disability rights and enforcement to a group of enthusiastic advocates and future disability rights leaders. Under the leadership of Menda Ide, the nonprofit group Access and Ability holds…
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…
Welcome, Moe!
Disability Law United is very excited to welcome Moe Leneweaver as our new Office Manager! Moe brings important community organizing and multiple-hat-wearing experience to the job. She worked most recently at IMPACT Charlottesville, engaging in grassroots organizing, planning an annual…
Disability Law United, Co-Counsel Achieve Major Milestone in Internet Captioning Cases Against MIT and Harvard
On February 9, 2016, Disability Law United and our wonderful co-counsel at the National Association of the Deaf, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, and the Disability Law Center got terrific decisions in our cases challenging Harvard’s and MIT’s…
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,…