A federal judge from the District of Maryland permanently enjoined Towson University (Towson) from preventing a student athlete from participating on the football team after the player made a near-miraculous comeback from a heat stroke he suffered two years earlier on...
Earlier this winter, it was reported that the U.S. Justice Department plans to propose new rules that would require movie theaters to provide devices for closed-captioning and audio descriptions of what is happening on the screen. Can sports facilities be far...
A federal judge from the District of New Jersey has granted summary judgment to that state’s former chairman of board of governors’ committee on intercollegiate athletics. Defendant Mark P. Hershhorn was named in a lawsuit by a former student athlete at Rutgers...
A federal judge from the Southern District of Ohio granted a motion for a preliminary injunction, which blocks the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s (OHSAA) requirement that a student athlete, who is disabled, must reside in the state of Ohio to be eligible to...
Ninth Circuit: School District Meets ADA Standards with Adequate ‘Program Access’ The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to a school district in a case in which it was sued under Title II of the Americans...
A federal judge from the District of Maryland has granted a request for protective order, effectively barring three plaintiffs, who are suing the University of Maryland for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, from taking the deposition of school...
Taking its cue for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal judge from the Middle District of Louisiana has blocked the bid of a student athlete, who sought a permanent injunction against Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA), which would have...
By Ellen Rugeley The Arizona Cardinals and the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority have implemented a new plan to accommodate hearing impaired fans at the University of Phoenix Stadium. These accommodations include text captioning on video boards so that fans...
By Ellen Rugeley The Arizona Cardinals and the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority have implemented a new plan to accommodate hearing impaired fans at the University of Phoenix Stadium. These accommodations include text captioning on video boards so that fans...
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s grant of a preliminary injunction, finding instead that a student athlete’s anxiety disorder did not qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which would have allowed...
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) is calling on the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to elaborate on its guidance relating to students with disabilities and their participation in school sports. Specifically, the NSBA,...
By Cadie Carroll Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has sued the Arizona Cardinals, demanding the team provide captions on all monitors at the University of Phoenix Stadium. The suit was filed on behalf of Michael Ubowski, a profoundly deaf man who has...
