Recent News and Developments
Disability Law & Disability Rights News Updates
- Supreme Court Rules Medical Device Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Preempted Patient’s State Common Law Tort Claims for Defective Catheter (Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, May/June 2008)
- Official urged fewer diagnoses of PTSD (WaPo, 5/16/08)
- Department of Education seeking comment on amendments to disability program (GPO, 5/13/08)
- Mentally ill misdiagnosed within U.S. immigration system (WaPo, 5/13/08)
- UN celebrates disability treaty (BBC News, 5/12/08)
- Covering 615 million worldwide, UN disability rights convention enters into force (Jurist, 5/4/08)
- District court rules Social Security Administration must accommodate blind (American Council of the Blind, 4/25/08)
- U.S. House of Representatives to hold hearing on access to broadband technology by those with disabilities
- Citing Commission study, ABA notes that ADA may not be serving original purpose
- Federal housing program expands definition of 'reasonable accommodation' (HUD, 3/10/08)
- You are us: What every lawyer needs to know about representing disabled clients (Oregon State Bar Bulletin, Feb./Mar. 2008)
- ABA statement to U.S. Senate on older voters and disabilities
- ABA submits amicus brief on competency of criminal defendants to waive assistance of counsel at trial ( Jan./Feb. 2008 issue of Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter
- U.S. Senate holds hearing on elderly with disabilities and voting; Commissioner Michael Waterstone testifies (US Senate)
- Testimony and video from Congressional hearings on restoring the Americans with Disabilities Act
