Hospital's Failure to Provide Sign Language Interpreter Negligence, Bureaucratic Inaction.
Ginsburg will pay $50K penalty to settle handicap suit at Haverstraw complex
The Journal News
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has settled a federal Fair Housing Act lawsuit against Ginsburg Development Companies, the federal agency announced Friday.
Under the settlement, the Valhalla-based developer has agreed to retrofit its two rental apartment complexes, Parkside and Riverside at Harbors-at-Haverstraw in Haverstraw, to make them more wheelchair accessible.
The settlement requires the developer to pay a $50,000 civil penalty and to provide up to $125,000 to compensate people who felt discriminated in the two rental buildings.
COLUMN: Awareness about ADA will improve lives of people with disabilities
The Daily Toreador
We should constantly be striving to make life easier for individuals with any kind of disability.
Whether it be ignoring their service dogs and leaving them in peace, providing a more comfortable public experience in stores, restaurants, transportation, etc. or just taking the time to ask them about their situation and inquiring about anyway that help can be provided — there are simple things we non-disabled people can do to be allies.
Pets on a plane: Airlines turn to government for help in taming rise of emotional support animals
Dallas News (blog)
A fracas on a Southwest Airlines flight out of Baltimore last year had all the usual elements of a viral air travel incident: an agitated passenger dragged off a plane, a he-said-she-said dispute over what transpired and a video that captured the worst of it.
The source of the angst was also increasingly common: animals — in this case, two dogs on the plane that the passenger said could cause her allergies to flare up.
Dallas-based Southwest, Fort Worth-based American Airlines and other U.S. carriers have seen a massive uptick in recent years in the number of pets flying on board, thanks to the growing use and misuse of the ill-defined genus that comprises “emotional support animals.”
Having a Disability Prevents Me From Using the Bathroom in Public
TeenVogue.com