Health care and non-compete agreements

Two years ago this week I got caught up in a legal dispute that briefly threatened my life. Obviously, I'm still alive, but a version of...

New book on Buck v. Bell

Image description: The cover of Lombardo's book shows sepia-toned photographs of two women and an infant. Three Generations, No Imbecile...

Slumgullion #48

Just a few good links. That's all you need, right? Bush cuts outpatient Medicaid services -- You heard about this parting gift from our...

Yes, it's exactly like Sophie's Choice

From Inside Higher Ed , here's the story of a seven-year-old ADA case against Louisiana's McNeese State University for failure to...

Pedro Guzman sues government

From the AP story : "I will never forget what Peter looked like when he finally returned to the U.S. — exhausted and in terrible shape,...

Latimer paroled

Through the appeals process, the decision to deny Robert Latimer parole has been overturned : After seven years in prison for killing his se...

Cop dumps quadriplegic man out of his wheechair

The story : Police Suspended for Wheelchair Dumping TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Four Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies have been suspended a...

Phoning It In

Last month, the state of Massachusetts issued a report on an August 2007 incident at one of the group homes of the Judge Rotenberg Center (...

Prison suicides and mental illness

Piggybacking on Amp's report of recent NYT statistics on prisons and prisoners in the U.S. is the news that prisoner suicides in Massa...

Robert Latimer denied parole

Yesterday, a Canadian parole board in a prison near Victoria denied day parole to Robert Latimer . Latimer is the Saskatchewan farmer servin...

Got access?

Cilla Sluga at Big Noise and Justice for All blog have both written recently about an ad for Accessible Cities Alliance that appeared in ...

ADA Restoration Act

The ADA Restoration Act is designed to clarify who the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act applies to in order to protect against the incre...

Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement

I'm suffering from Acute Blogging Malaise. So, I'll just post the link to this article and hope to say something relevant in comment...

I think it's safe to say. . .

that folks in wheelchairs have the edge in creating successful sit-in protests . Not that it's all about sitting around, but we do bring...

Updated: ADAPT action in Chicago

"Individually, no one's more invisible than a person in a wheelchair. Collectively they're pretty spectacular." Source How...

On Ruben Navarro

If you read just one thing this week about disability in America, read this . I briefly mentioned Navarro's case here but the above lin...

Pedro Guzman found

From the AP report : LOS ANGELES – A U.S. citizen who was wrongly deported in May was found at a border crossing over the weekend and was e...

Doctor murders disabled man to harvest organs

This story comes out of central California : San Luis Obispo County prosecutors have charged a transplant surgeon with prescribing excessive...

Happy 17, ADA!

Today, July 26, is the 17th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here's a photo of the historic event, sho...

Veterans sue U.S. government

On Monday, two veterans' organizations filed a nationwide class-action suit against the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) for fai...