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via Chicago Business powered by Crain's By Lorene Yue Sept. 29, 2009 (Crain’s) — Sears Roebuck & Co. has agreed to pay $6.2 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed the retailer violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by firing disabled employees instead of accommodating...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 21, 2009) - The Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR) today endorsed a petition being circulated by Sally O'Neill, a 17-year old girl with cerebral palsy, calling on the airline industry to comply with the mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA...
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GettingHired.com joins with the community of people with disabilities in extending sympathy to the family and friends of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and mourning the loss of a great leader and advocate for the rights of all people, including people with disabilities. Please read the statements...
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By Lindsey Tanner August 22, 2009 via The AP Like seeing-eye dogs for the blind, trained dogs are now being used to help autistic children deal with their disabilities. But some schools want to keep the animals out, and families are fighting back. Two autistic elementary school students recently won...
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By Kate Cyrul and Bergen Kenny via Iowapolitics.com August 6th, 2009 HARKIN STATEMENT ON THE SENATE VOTE TO CONFIRM JUDGE SONIA SOTOMAYOR TO THE SUPREME COURT Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) entered the following remarks into the Congressional Record today on his vote for Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
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We at Gettinghired.com join the Baltimore Sun (See below) and the community of people with disabilities in urging our Senators to ratify our signature on this important treaty. President Barack Obama recently did something very few American presidents have done: announced his intention to sign and submit...
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via United States International Council on Disabilities July 21, 2009 The United States International Council on Disabilities (USICD), representing a broad constituency of Americans with disabilities and disability organizations, praises Monday's announcement of President Barack Obama's intention...
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By Renatta Signorini , LEADER TIMES via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Even though the Americans With Disabilities Act was signed into law 19 years ago, members of the Disability Investigative Group know they still have to fight for complete accessibility. A rally held yesterday in...
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Happy birthday to the Americans with Disabilities Act! Since its passage back in 1990, ramps have replaced curbs and stairs, braille has appeared inside most elevators, and outside the door too so that people who are blind and visually impaired can know where they have arrived, transit systems have installed...
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The major blindness organizations, the ones whose membership consists largely of people who are actually blind and visually impaired themselves, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and Darrell Shandrow, a university student who is blind, are suing Arizona...
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Mike Ervin gets every detail right in this article. Our Gettinghired community joins Mike and ADAPT and all Americans with disabilities in celebrating the anniversary of this momentous Supreme Court decision. We only wish that more states and more institutions would get the point the Court made a decade...
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via The Baltimore Sun By Christopher D. Saudek June 17, 2009 One hundred years ago, Judge Sonia Sotomayor would not have reached her 10th birthday. Now she is nominated to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States , with every expectation that she will influence the court for decades to come. Her...
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via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Tina Calabro Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Last week, as Pittsburgh basked in the unexpected honor of being selected to host a G20 meeting, another small but distinguished group of international leaders came to town to discuss an issue of global importance. Disability rights...
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Disabled man wins push to clear way via Concord Monitor By Margot Sanger-Katz, Monitor staff June 13, 2009 Bill Tinker likes to ride his scooter around downtown Tilton. The Northfield man has respiratory, circulatory and orthopedic problems that make walking or driving difficult. But he still likes to...
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Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer via SFGate , home of the San Francisco Chronicle By Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, June 12, 2009 The state Supreme Court took a broad view of California's disability law Thursday, saying businesses that don't accommodate impaired customers are subject...
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