NEW YORK – Today, the New York Court of Appeals took a critical step toward remedying the injustice committed against Mr. Z, a father who was separated from his child at birth, by granting leave to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana is one of 17 states involved in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s expansion of disability protections under Section 504 of the ...

TALLAHASSEE – Disability-rights advocates are challenging a new state law allowing pregnant women to use parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities, alleging the measure violates federal ...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is facing mounting criticism from parents of children with disabilities after he joined a multistate lawsuit challenging a federal rule that added “gender dysphoria ...

NEW YORK — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed an amicus brief with the New York State Court of Appeals in support of a father’s, Mr. Z, ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Minnesota family that has been battling their local school district over the education of their daughter in a decision that could make it easier ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for students with disabilities to sue schools for damages. Not only did all the ...

Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader protections for people with disabilities. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from ...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a bill is moving through Congress that aims to address that disparity. The U.S ...

To save lives, plaintiffs request emergency relief and stay on implementation of the law, slated to go into effect on Jan. 1 The plaintiffs — led by a Delaware citizen Sean Curran, the Freedom Center ...

Ableism often arises from assumptions about what disability “looks like.” Seeing someone pushing a wheelchair instead of sitting in it might lead others to assume there is nothing wrong with the ...