WASHINGTON (7News) — The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) to determine if the district is failing students with special needs or ...

The nation’s largest movie theater chain illegally forced out an employee with cerebral palsy after two decades on the job, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. In a lawsuit filed this ...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a bill is moving through Congress that aims to address that disparity. The U.S ...

In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, the Supreme Court considered the obligation of schools to refrain from discriminating on the basis of a disability. Specifically, ...

The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with disabilities in public schools. Ava Tharpe is a teenage girl who ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Milwaukee Montessori School has agreed to pay a $290,000 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina-based publishing company Champion Media, LLC violated federal employment laws when it refused to hire a deaf job applicant because of her disability and refused to ...

You learn that a health care worker was fired for inappropriate conduct toward disabled adults and want to know what happened ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A woman filed a lawsuit against the Indianapolis Housing Agency and others, accusing them of discriminating against her for having a disability. Kristina Hornaday-Alberts, who ...

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has filed a formal charge of discrimination against McLaren Regional Medical Center Auxiliary alleging unequal service and failure to accommodate based on ...

Autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are fuelling a surge in employment tribunal cases amid a rapid rise in diagnoses across the country.

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