We are very excited to welcome Prof. Alan Chen as a new member of CREEC’s board of directors. Our newest board member is a distinguished professor of law and a nationally-recognized expert in constitutional law and civil rights litigation. Alan…
University of Denver Civil Rights Clinic and CREEC Reach Groundbreaking Settlement with Department of Corrections
Prisoners in restrictive housing and close custody at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) have reached a settlement with Colorado prison officials that will provide outdoor exercise for those inmates for the first time since the prison’s construction in 1993. The…
Lambda Legal and CREEC Urge Delta Airlines to Amend Pension Plan to Grant Benefits to Surviving Same-Sex Spouses
“It is time for Delta and other major employers—many of whom are allies to the LGBT community—to update their boilerplate policies and remove this hurdle that affects same-sex couples who were barred from marriage for so long.” Lambda Legal and…
Big CREEC News: Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky open CREEC’s California Office
We are very excited to announce that we are opening a CALIFORNIA OFFICE and that we will by joined by the amazing and talented Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky. Bill was the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1997–2001…
Baca v. Parkview Resolved!
George Baca and Parkview Medical Center have reached a settlement in Mr. Baca’s lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act currently pending in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado addressing Parkview’s provision of effective communication to…
25 Years After ADA Passes, Thousands of Seattle Curbs Still Inaccessible
A class action lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington alleges that the City of Seattle has failed to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act and state law, which…
Welcome, Lauren!
We are very happy to announce that Lauren Fontana is joining CREEC as a staff attorney. Lauren spent the last two years teaching in the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic, representing incarcerated individuals. Prior to joining the Clinic,…
New Case: Student Files Complaint Against College for Discrimination
Today, CREEC filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division on behalf of a student at IntelliTec College. The complaint alleges discrimination by a place of public accommodation based on sexual orientation and religion. In June 2015, Crystal Rea,…
Update: Service Animals Case Settles!
In March, CREEC filed a case alleging that a Colorado apartment complex (and its owners and property manager) discriminated against Valerie Gonzales and Traci Eaton, two individuals with disabilities, by denying them the reasonable accommodation of service animals. We’re happy to report…
Amicus Success in the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit decided yesterday that that you cannot moot a Title III case by keeping the challenged policy and making an exception only for the plaintiff. In Butler v. WinCo Foods, LLC, — Fed. App’x —, 2015 WL 3377837…