More than a dozen advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the rights of people with disabilities to sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In a “friend-of-the-court” brief ...

Following close behind last month’s announcement by the Department of Labor (DOL) of a “comprehensive review” of 14(c), the program that allows some agencies to pay a subminimum wage to a subset of ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the ...

“It sounded like a semitruck was coming,” said Adam Wouk, manager of disability services at Joliet Junior College, as he reflected on a student using a platform at another institution. “I wasn’t even ...

In a presidential proclamation on the 33 rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), President Biden stated that the landmark civil rights law “has had a profound impact,” but the ...

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and how does it affect education? Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) was the culmination of decades of progress for ...

It’s been 35 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became a law in the United States. Decades later there are still limitations, places that are not accessible for people with ...

July was named Disability Pride Month to commemorate the Americans with Disabilities Act being signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990. The ADA made it illegal to discriminate ...

As hundreds of disability leaders, advocates, federal appointees and civil servants gathered on the White House’s South Lawn for President Joe Biden’s final commemoration of the Americans with ...

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin is renowned for authoring the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was signed into law in 1990. As he prepared to retire after serving 40 years in Congress, the senator ...