July marks the 35th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This civil rights law prohibits ...

Employers can hold vendors accountable by demanding that vendors truly design their products to be inclusive – including by incorporating the perspectives and experiences of people with disabilities ...

More than 2,000 disability rights advocates gathered on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on a hot summer day. It was July 26, 1990, and they’d come together to witness one ...

Retirees lack the basis to sue their former employers under the Americans with Disabilities Act for unlawful denial of ...

Pelka notes there has been an increase in interest in disability history in recent years. “It’s long overdue,” he said. Massachusetts is one of several states that recognize Disability History Month ...

The justices ruled unanimously that students with disabilities need not meet a more stringent standard when suing under two federal laws.

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The move to update regulations related to Section 504 comes nearly three years after HHS put out a request for information on disability discrimination in the health care and child welfare systems. In ...

In 1978 the US Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act as an amendment to the sex discrimination section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Prior to the Act, there were various Supreme Court ...

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But these tools are just the latest frontier in a long history of employment tests that can discriminate and harm job seekers. For example, one of the landmark civil rights cases, Griggs v. Duke Power ...