NEW YORK, NY — The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) today announced that more than $ 7 million has been awarded to help provide legal assistance to people who have been
denied federal disability benefits.
Not exact matches
According to the complaint, which cites eight Success schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, the Success Academy network violated
federal laws protecting individuals with
disabilities when it
denied accommodations to the students or, in some cases, pushed them out.
If a child - study team
denies a student with a
disability the opportunity to exercise choice, that team is violating the student's rights, which are protected under multiple
federal and state statutes.
A coalition of education groups led by the National School Boards Association and its Ohio affiliate had urged the justices to review a
federal appeals court opinion that
denied qualified immunity to an administrator who had reported to state authorities her suspicions that a 17 - year - old girl with an intellectual
disability was being sexually abused at home.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (often referred to as «Section 504») and Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 (Title II) are the
federal laws that apply if the harassment
denies a student with a
disability an equal opportunity to education.
No otherwise qualified individual with a
disability in the United States... shall, solely by reason of her or his
disability, be excluded from the participation in, be
denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving
Federal financial assistance...
In the complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2016, Ms. Auman alleged that the university violated the
federal Fair Housing Act by
denying her request to keep her emotional support animal, a cat named Kifree (pictured), in her university - operated student housing unit as a reasonable accommodation of her
disability.
It is illegal, pursuant to the Ohio Fair Housing Law, division (H) of Section 4112.02 of the Revised Code and the
Federal Fair Housing Law, 42 U.S.C.A. 3601, to refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease or finance housing accommodations, refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, or otherwise
deny or make unavailable housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status as defined in Section 4112.01 of the Revised Code, ancestry, military status as defined in that section,
disability as defined in that section, or national origin or to so discriminate in advertising the sale or rental of housing, in the financing of housing, or in the provision of real estate brokerage services.
It is illegal, pursuant to the Ohio Fair Housing Law, Division (H) of Section 4112.02 of the Ohio Revised Code and the
Federal Fair Housing Law, 42, U.C.S.A. 3601, to refuse to sell, transfer, assign, rent, lease, sublease, or finance housing accommodations, refuse to negotiate for the sale or rental of housing accommodations, or otherwise
deny or make unavailable housing accommodations because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status as defined in Section 4112.01 of the Ohio Revised Code, ancestry, military status as defined in that section,
disability as defined in that section, or national origin or to so discriminate in advertising the sale or rental of housing, in the financing of housing, or in the provision of real estate brokerage services.