NOTICE OF PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT ATTENTION ALL INDIVIDUALS WITH MOBILITY DISABILITIES: If you have used, or attempted to use, the pedestrian right of way in the City…
DLC Finds Abuse & Neglect in Death of Woman Discharged from Middleborough Hospital and Left on Boston Streets
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 8, 2021 DLC Finds Abuse & Neglect in Death of Woman Discharged from Middleborough Hospital and Left on Boston Streets Watchdog Group Cites Failure of the…
Accessibility Enhancements on the Horizon for HBO Max Customers Who are Blind
For Immediate Release October 19, 2020 Contacts Meredith Weaver, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Advocates: 510-665-8644, mweaver@dralegal.org Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation, Disability Law Center: 617-723-8455, tpritchard@dlc-ma.org Kim Charlson, Immediate…
Federal Court Approves Agreed Judgment In Case That DLC Filed To Ensure Accessible Vote By Mail For Voters With Disabilities
Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation tpritchard@dlc-ma.org or 617-723-8455 Ext. 138 October 13, 2020 FEDERAL COURT APPROVES AGREED JUDGMENT IN CASE THAT DLC FILED TO ENSURE ACCESSIBLE VOTE BY…
Final Judgment in DLC’s Emergency Petition Concerning Accessible Electronic Vote by Mail
Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation On August 21, 2020, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts – Charlson, et al., v. Secretary of…
SJC Judgement Issues in DLC’s Emergency Petition Concerning Accessible Electronic Vote by Mail
For Immediate Release Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation On August 21, 2020, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on behalf of six…
DLC Files Emergency Petition with the SJC Concerning Accessible Electronic Vote by Mail
August 21, 2020 Today, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on behalf of six individual petitioners, Bay State Council of the Blind, and the…
A message from our Executive Director
Friends, Our nation has been rocked by tragedy and pain during the past few months. We were shaken by the disparate impact that COVID-19 has had on the disability community…
Disability Workplace Matters
A forum for questions on disability benefits, rights and workplace issues in the era of COVID-19. With experts from the Disability Law Center, the ARC of Massachusetts, and Work without…
Investigations of MCI-Shirley and MCI-Norfolk
On April 27, 2020, DLC informed the Department of Correction that it had found probable cause to initiate investigations of MCI-Shirley and MCI-Norfolk based on reports of prisoners with disabilities…