This morning, Westword’s Alan Prendergast published an article about the settlement that the University of Denver’s Civil Rights Clinic and Disability Law United reached with the Colorado Department of Corrections last week. The online article focuses on the history of Colorado State Penitentiary,…
University of Denver Civil Rights Clinic and Disability Law United Reach Groundbreaking Settlement with Department of Corrections
Prisoners in restrictive housing and close custody at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) have reached a settlement with Colorado prison officials that will provide outdoor exercise for those inmates for the first time since the prison’s construction in 1993. The…
Lambda Legal and Disability Law United Urge Delta Airlines to Amend Pension Plan to Grant Benefits to Surviving Same-Sex Spouses
“It is time for Delta and other major employers—many of whom are allies to the LGBT community—to update their boilerplate policies and remove this hurdle that affects same-sex couples who were barred from marriage for so long.” Lambda Legal and…
Baca v. Parkview Resolved!
George Baca and Parkview Medical Center have reached a settlement in Mr. Baca’s lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act currently pending in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado addressing Parkview’s provision of effective communication to…
25 Years After ADA Passes, Thousands of Seattle Curbs Still Inaccessible
A class action lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington alleges that the City of Seattle has failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act and state law, which…
New Case: Student Files Complaint Against College for Discrimination
Today, Disability Law United filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of a student at IntelliTec College. The complaint alleges discrimination by a place of public accommodation based on sexual orientation and religion. In June 2015,…
Update: Service Animals Case Settles!
In March, Disability Law United filed a case alleging that a Colorado apartment complex (and its owners and property manager) discriminated against Valerie Gonzales and Traci Eaton, two individuals with disabilities, by denying them the reasonable accommodation of service animals. We’re happy…
“Outdoor” “Exercise” at the Colorado State Penitentiary
Read this piece at ThoughtSnax.
Disability Law United in Court: Deaf Dad Sues Pueblo’s Parkview Medical Center Over Failure to Provide Interpreter
George Baca filed a lawsuit today against Parkview Medical Center of Pueblo, CO in the U.S. District Court in Colorado. The lawsuit asserts that Parkview denied Mr. Baca, who is deaf and communicates using American Sign Language, a sign language…
Disability Law United’s Anderson case in Prison Legal News
Anderson v. Colorado, a case Disability Law United is litigating with the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Denver law school, was featured in a recent issue of Prison Legal News. The headline — Federal Court Orders Colorado to…