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"Lawsuit Alleging Failure to Educate Jailed Teens Is Settled"

November 1, 2010Beverly Hills Courier http://bhcourier.com/lawsuit-alleging-failure-to-educate-jailed-teens-is-settled/2010/11/04

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Ability Magazine

July 24, 2012Ability MagazineWe all need homes that we- and those who visit us- can get around with ease. This is important for families as well as communities. The disability rights movement has...

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Disabled Allege Poor Care in Jails

May 29, 2009Richard Winton, Times Staff Writer Los Angeles TimesDownloadable Document: Disabledallegepoorcareinjails_001.pdf

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Opening Doors and Minds

July 24, 2009AetnaUniversities are legally required to provide students who need them with reasonable accommodations for course examinations. They must make certain that students know about these...

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Fighting to Live, Remain Insured

February 20, 2009Steve Lopez Los Angeles TimesLoyola Law School extern with the Cancer Legal Resource Center quoted in LA Times article discussing his experiences working at the CLRC and helping...

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"Judge rules in favor of letting autistic boy take service dog to school"

June 15, 2011Los Angeles Timeshttp://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/15/local/la-me-autism-dog-20110615

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DRLC Files Suit against Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority

February 25, 2013On February 25, 2013, DRLC filed suit against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and MTA contractor Veolia Transportation Services, Inc. alleging...

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Preliminary Approval Granted in DRLC's Class Action against the County of Los...

March 20, 2013On February 26, 2013, Judge Consuelo B. Marshall issued an order granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Approval of the Class Action Settlement between DRLC and co-counsel Disability...

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DRLC Lawsuit Generates Media Attention Across the Country

February 28, 2014DRLC's recent lawsuit, co-counseling with the Law Office of John Burton, against the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Police Department for unlawfully assaulting and brutally...

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NY Lawsuit Seeks to Expand Civil Rights of Dying

February 4, 2015The New York TimesA group of doctors and terminally ill patients are asking New York courts to declare that doctor-assisted suicide is legal and not covered by the state’s prohibition...

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New York Lawsuit Seeks to Legalize Doctor-Assisted Suicide

February 4, 2015ABC7A group of New York doctors and patients is continuing the death with dignity push publicized by Brittany Maynard, who lived in the East Bay.On Wednesday, those in New York are...

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Three Terminally Sick Patients Sue New York State over Assisted Suicide Law...

February 4, 2015New York Daily NewsSteve Goldenberg, Sara Myers and Eric Seiff are asking a judge to issue an order protecting their physicians from criminal prosecution if they give them ‘aid in...

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Advocates File Lawsuit Against NYS To Clarify Law On Doctor-Assisted Suicide

February 4, 2015CBS New YorkTwo patient advocacy groups have brought a lawsuit against New York State, asking the court to declare that doctor-assisted suicide is legal.Lead counsel and executive and...

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Lawsuit Looks to Legalize Aid in Dying in New York

February 4, 2015TimeLatest 'death wtih dignity' push following the death of Brittany Maynard.A group of patients and doctors filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking the New York Supreme Court to rule that aid...

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Lawsuit Asks Court to Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide in New York

February 4, 2015ReutersA group of doctors and patients, some terminally ill, on Wednesday asked a New York court to rule that doctor-assisted suicide is not against state law.The lawsuit, filed against...

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Assisted suicide case filed in San Francisco Superior Court: Can right-to-die...

February 12, 2015AirTalkAirTalkThe latest attempt to shape the right-to-die debate has come in the form of a lawsuit filed by a cancer patient and five doctors with the San Francisco Superior Court.At...

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California cancer patient sues for right to doctor-assisted death

February 11, 2015ReutersReuters A 53-year-old California woman suffering from leukemia sued the state's attorney general and San Francisco's top prosecutor on Wednesday seeking the right for physicians...

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San Francisco Woman With Cancer Sues for the Right to Die On Her Own Terms

February 11, 2015SF WeeklySF Weekly A leukemia-afflicted San Francisco woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday in attempt to make it legal in California for doctors to assist terminally ill patients allowing...

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DRLC Lawsuit Generates Media Attention Across the Country

February 28, 2014DRLC's recent lawsuit, co-counseling with the Law Office of John Burton, against the City of Hawthorne and the Hawthorne Police Department for unlawfully assaulting and brutally...

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NY Lawsuit Seeks to Expand Civil Rights of Dying

February 4, 2015The New York TimesA group of doctors and terminally ill patients are asking New York courts to declare that doctor-assisted suicide is legal and not covered by the state’s prohibition...

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