Category Archives: Olmstead
The Federal Government May Be Abandoning Children with Disabilities in Florida and Terminating TPS Just Made the Situation More Dire.
A medically fragile child who requires round-the-clock care. Photograph published by Florida Bulldog. A recent Florida Bulldog investigation examines a dramatic change in the position of the United States Department of Justice—one that threatens decades of progress toward allowing people with disabilities to live in their homes and communities rather than being unnecessarily confined… Read More »
Do I still have a claim? – Effects of Cummings v. Premier Rehab on the future of claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act or Section 504
By Matthew W. Dietz .pdf version On April 28, 2022, the United States Supreme Court, in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C., 142 S. Ct. 1562 (2022), found that damages are unavailable for discrimination without a physical injury in all federal disability laws (such as the ADA and Section 504), and some sex and… Read More »
Institutionalization of Medically Complex Children
A.R. v. Dudek – the efforts to give children with disabilities the care they need. Florida has been home for approximately three thousand children with severe disabilities who require constant nursing care or supervision on a 24-hour per day basis to stay alive. These disabilities could be the result of a trauma, such as… Read More »