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  1. Abhean

    Outside Article USAF Vet Says Fertility Clinic Illegally Refused To Let Him Bring Service Dog Into Clinic

    https://norcalrecord.com/stories/tag/225-lawsuits The San Francisco County Superior Court | By Adam Engelhart from San Francisco, California, USA - Looking West: City Hall and CA state courts, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3692277 By Northern California Record...
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    Outside Article Appeals Court Allows Lawsuit To Proceed Against Officer Who Fatally Shot Child’s Support Dog In Gurnee

    by Sam BorciaAugust 27, 2023 6:25 PM File Photo – Gurnee Police Department | Photo: Woo-Sung Shim / Lake and McHenry County Scanner A federal appeals court has ruled a lawsuit can proceed against a Gurnee police officer who fatally shot a child's support dog while responding to a non-emergent...
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    Outside Article Federal Lawsuit Targets Police Handling Of Joshua Rohrer Case

    Kara Fohner, The Gaston Gazette Joshua Rohrer holds a vest belonging to his late service dog, Sunshine Rae. The vest still features a prong from a taser that a police officer shot at Sunshine. A once-homeless veteran who says he was wrongly arrested by police in October and whose service dog...
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    Resource C. L. V. DEL AMO HOSPITAL 2023-06-19

    (1) whether Aspen was a service dog, and (2) whether allowing Aspen to participate in C.L.'s hospitalization would "fundamentally alter" the psychiatric services that were being offered to C.L. during those hospitalizations under 42 U.S.C. § 12182(b)(2)(A).
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    Outside Article She Paid $18,500 For A WA Service Dog But Became The Dog’s ‘emotional Support Human’ Instead

    Mike Reicher During the throes of the pandemic in 2020, Amy Fellows struggled to get her then-11-year-old autistic child, who has severe anxiety, to leave the house. She thought a service dog could help. Fellows soon found herself mired in a booming, but largely unregulated, industry catering...
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    Resource 22-1881 Perry Hopman v. Union Pacific Railroad 2023-05-24

    Perry Hopman, then a conductor now an engineer for Union Pacific Railroad("Union Pacific"), brought this action under the Americans with Disabilities Act("ADA"), 42 U.S.C. § 12117(a), when Union Pacific refused Hopman's requests thathe be allowed to bring his Rottweiler service dog on board...
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    Outside Article Hobby Lobby to pay former clerk in service dog lawsuit

    By: Journal Record Staff//May 10, 2023 Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a former part-time store clerk who was fired after she told supervisors she could not work without her service dog. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a disability...
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    Outside Article Kalamazoo school under investigation after alleged harassment of student with service dog

    By Aya Miller | amiller2@mlive.com KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo Central High School 12th grader Alyssa Douglas said her final year of high school has been complicated due to the treatment she and her service dog, Moxi, received while attending classes at the school. Douglas has filed a federal...
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    Outside Article Papa Johns fired worker with vision disability who needed service dog, EEOC alleges

    Dive Brief: A Papa Johns location in Athens, Georgia, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it fired a worker who needed his service dog to commute to work, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged Wednesday (EEOC v. Papa John's USA, Inc. No. 3:23-cv-00030 (M.D. Ga...
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    Outside Article No Dogs Allowed: Federal Court Rejects Service Dog Accommodation in Hospital Setting

    This is from a case I have been watching for a while. A very important read for all service dog teams that the handler is working. Most of us know that when an employee or visitor to a place of public accommodation requests a reasonable accommodation, the ADA requires an interactive process to...
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    Outside Article Disney discrimination lawsuit claims woman illegally denied entry into Disneyland Resort due to service dog

    Disney discrimination lawsuit overview: Who: A woman with a disability sued Walt Disney Parks. Why: The plaintiff alleges workers at Disneyland Resort would not let her into the park with her service dog in violation of the law. Where: The Disney discrimination lawsuit was filed in a California...
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    Outside Article $200K in restitution issued to consumers misled by service dogs organization

    RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Friday that his office has mailed restitution checks totaling $192,667.11 to 94 consumers as part of two judgments entered in a lawsuit filed against Service Dogs by Warren Retrievers, Inc. (SDWR) and its founder, Charles "Dan"...
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