From EEOC Commissioner Chai Felblum: Al Sharpton at Saturday’s March ‘spoke of meeting an African-American man of some achievement who told him, ‘Look at my resumé. The civil rights movement didn’t write it.’” Sharpton said he replied, “Civil rights didn’t…
Great decision out of New Mexico!
The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously held that a store open to the public cannot discriminate based on the religious beliefs of the store owners. Specifically, in that case, the owner of a photography studio could not refuse to…
Hey Hollister! Learn from Wet Seal!
While the Hollister chain continues to defend a store design that segregates customers in wheelchairs to side entrances . . . . . . the Wet Seal clothing chain has responded to the aspirations and ingenuity of a girl with…
Judge: Hollister has 3 years to bring entrances into compliance
Judge Wiley Daniel ordered Hollister to bring its raised porch entrances into compliance with the ADA by January 1, 2017. CREEC lawyers along with co-counsel from the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition, Lewis Feinberg, and Campins Benham-Baker, had challenged Hollister’s inaccessible entrances…
Neighbors object to family’s ramp and driveway
CREEC is representing a family whose neighbors are objecting to a ramp they installed because their daughter uses a wheelchair. The matter got some coverage on Colorado Springs’s KKTV {Image description: Screen grab from KKTV broadcase showing…
It’s all about merit . . . now with fresh data!
In Sunday’s post It’s all about merit … until it isn’t, I used a five-year-old quote from the commissioner of the LPGA — cited in that day’s New York Times — to make the point that majority peeps generally favor…
Stop Texting and Driving or You’ll Turn Black. Or Latino. Or Christian.
I often try to convey why non-but-should-be-obvious disability prejudice is in fact prejudice — and wrong — by swapping out the disability feature for another human category: race; national origin; religion. Though imprecise and fraught with opportunities for…
It’s all about merit … until it isn’t.
I realize this is a bit of old news, but an article in today’s New York Times reminded me yet again that we’re a meritocracy — no affirmative action allowed! — just so long as it’s euro-derived/white/straight/Christian/cis/non-disabled people who own…
The Ramps of Route 1
Every summer or so, we visit my brother and his family at their place in Maine. To do this, we generally fly into Boston and then drive the four hours from Logan to mid-coast Maine. The first three…
From the Back of the Bus to No Bus at All.
Via fair housing guru Daniel Lauber, this appalling report from Think Progress: Mostly-White Ohio Suburb Fighting To Prevent Mostly-Black Bus-Riders From Entering Community A lily-white Ohio suburb is doing everything it can, including risking millions in federal highway funding, to…