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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: disability rights

disability rights stories: 7 news summaries

(Newser) - The London woman banished to the Abercrombie & Fitch stockroom because of her prosthetic arm has been awarded more $13,000 by an employment tribunal, the BBC reports. Riam Dean wore a cardigan to cover the joint between her prosthesis and her body, but the sweater clashed with the retailer’... More »

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London • workplace discrimination • discrimination • prosthesis • employment • disability • harassment • tribunal • Abercrombie & Fitch • disability rights • Riam Dean

 Disabled Bite Back 
 Over Animal Guides 

Some suspect animal owners of abusing of special privileges

Jan 4, 09 2:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Miniature horses trek through supermarkets and monkeys queue up at restaurant buffets these days—all to guide the blind, the disabled, and the anxiety-ridden, Rebecca Skloot writes in the New York Times Magazine. But the increasing prevalence of wild and farm service animals among the civilized is reigniting the debate... More »

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disability • horse • parrot • psychiatric disorders • dog • animal • Americans With Disabilities Act • disability rights

Court Caps Man at More Than
400 Lawsuits

Californian sued
under Americans
With Disabilities Act

Nov 18, 08 11:58 AM CST
(Newser) - After filing more than 400 lawsuits under the Amercians With Disabilities Act, Jarek Molski will be be allowed to file no more, the Los Angeles Times reports. In 2004, a federal judge accused him of extorting California businesses, barring him from future litigation, and yesterday the Supreme Court declined to... More »

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civil lawsuits • US Supreme Court • Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals • disabled access • Americans With Disabilities Act • disability rights

 Korea Backs Monopoly 
 for Blind Masseurs  

Profession will remain reserved for the blind in South Korea

Oct 31, 08 5:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A South Korean court has upheld a law allowing only blind people to work as masseurs, the AP reports. The profession has been reserved for the blind for almost a century, but a legal battle had raged for years over the constitutionality of the rule. The perceived threat to their... More »

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South Korea • disability • blindness • masseuse • constitutionality • disability rights

OPINION

 Time to Ditch the Word 'Retard'? 


Sep 21, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder is just the latest example of how the word "retard" has become a pop-culture phenom, but the movie also has served as a catalyst for disability advocates who claim that the word is offensive and must go, writes Lynn Harris in Salon. Are they right?... More »

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disability • hate speech • Tropic Thunder • disability rights • Down Syndrome

S. Korea's
Blind Masseurs Protest Threat
to Livelihood

Government opens profession to sighted

Sep 19, 08 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Blind masseurs in South Korea are protesting what they see as the end of a way of life—and their livelihood, CNN reports. Police arrested 26 yesterday who gathered on a bridge and threatened to jump because the government is for the first time allowing sighted people to become licensed... More »

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South Korea • disability • blindness • masseuse • constitutionality • disability rights

OPINION

How Thunder's Joke Hurts
the Disabled

'Retard' a painful word for mother of daughter with Downs

Aug 16, 08 7:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patricia E. Bauer suffers every time her Downs syndrome daughter hears the word "retard." When Bauer saw ads for Tropic Thunder, which jokes about retardation, they echoed every insult that her blond, blue-eyed daughter had endured for 24 years. After weeks of debate, Bauer remains stunned by... More »

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marketing • mental retardation • disability • DreamWorks • Ben Stiller • movies • Tropic Thunder • Simple Jack • disability rights

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