Recently Disability Law United’s Immigration Detention Accountability Project (IDAP) expanded its services to include a robust Help Desk component. The number of migrants and asylum seekers who are being detained in immigration prisons or denied entry at the U.S. border…
Disability Law United and Co-Counsel File Preliminary Injunction in Fraihat v ICE Case
Disability Law United and Co-counsel Seek Emergency Court Ruling for Immediate COVID-19 Protections for People in Immigration Jails Early this morning, Disability Law United and others filed an emergency application for a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for…
Landmark Agreements Establish New Model for Online Accessibility in Higher Education and Business
PRESS RELEASE Settlement with MIT Follows Similar Agreement with Harvard University to Caption Online Content Agreements Represent the Most Comprehensive Set of Online Accessibility Requirements BOSTON—The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announced today a landmark settlement with the Massachusetts…
FAC Program Helps Secure Effective Communication for Mr. Sam
Following a stroke, 94-year old Mr. Sam from Mississippi needed some transition time in a rehabilitation center. Imagine his family’s frustration when application after application was rejected…because the rehab facilities were not willing to provide a sign language interpreter for…
Increasing Accessibility City by City – Curb Ramps
Millions of Americans with mobility disabilities regularly use sidewalks to travel from home to work, school, the store, performance venues, sports stadiums, to visit family, or to access community gathering spaces. And yet, the corners of many city sidewalks across…
National Association of the Deaf Announces Landmark Settlement with Harvard to Improve Online Accessibility
Settlement Includes Requirements Beyond Harvard’s New Accessibility Policies, Including Captions for Live Events, Third-Party Platforms and Department-Sponsored Student Groups Harvard Agrees to Enter Consent Decree, Ensuring Court Enforcement of Settlement BOSTON—The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) announced today a…
Tim Fox Writes for the Civil Rights Insider
Co-Executive Director, Tim Fox, was invited by the Federal Bar Association’s Civil Rights Law Section to write an article for their newsletter, the Civil Rights Insider regarding the Fraihat v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Case No. 5:19-cv-01546 (C.D. Cal).…
Full and Equal Enjoyment for Sports and Music Fans
Client spotlight: Kirstin Kurlander Garcia Deaf lacrosse fan and Disability Law United client Kirstin Kurlander Garcia has been instrumental in bringing open captioning to both the Pepsi Center and Broncos Stadium. Using Disability Law United’s Fast Advocacy for Communication program,…
Press Release: Colorado Department of Corrections Ordered to Provide Videophones to Deaf Prisoners.
For Immediate Release Thursday, September 19, 2019 COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ORDERED TO PROVIDE VIDEOPHONES TO DEAF PRISONERS Ruling comes three years after prisoner-initiated lawsuit filed. DENVER — A Denver federal court yesterday ordered the Colorado Department of Corrections…
Who is impacted by ICE’s disregard of medical, mental health, and disability needs of detained immigrants? Too many people. Disability Law United and others are working to put an end to it.
A refugee from Sudan, Hamida Ali has a mental disability and a history of suicide attempts. Despite this, Ms. Ali was left in a dorm by herself with no other detained individuals or guards for nine months, exacerbating her symptoms.…