July 31, 2024
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and Disability Rights California condemn mask bans and urge lawmakers not to adopt them to protect the right of people with disabilities to participate in the community safely during the ongoing pandemic.
July 31, 2024
The CCD Board of Directors condemns the murder of Sonya Massey at the hands of a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy in Illinois. Sonya Massey called 911 to report a potential prowler around her home.
July 25, 2024
Governor Gavin Newsom, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision in City of Grants Pass Oregon v. Johnson, has issued an executive order to clear homeless encampments across California. The order will have a particularly devastating impact on disabled people.
July 11, 2024
DREDF filed a motion with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal seeking leave to participate as amicus curiae in Guthrey v. Alta California Regional Center, a case that will decide whether regional centers and their vendors are subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of the ADA.
July 3, 2024
By refusing to issue an opinion on the merits of the case, the Court failed to clarify when doctors in states with abortion bans can legally provide emergency abortion care. Because of this, thousands of pregnant people may not be able to access health-preserving or life-saving abortion care.
June 20, 2024
DREDF celebrates Olmstead for what has been accomplished in the 25 years since the ruling, and for the promise it spoke into being: that we will together finally reach a point where people with all kinds of disabilities and people without disabilities can equally count on a healthcare system that assumes patients will return to homes in the communities where they live, work, and play.
June 20, 2024
Nearly two years after the Dobbs decision stripped Americans of their federal right to an abortion, DREDF remains committed to its advocacy to ensure that disabled and non-disabled people have access to a full range of reproductive choices, including abortion.
December 5, 2023
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in the Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer case. The case was dismissed as moot.
October 4, 2023
DREDF is hopeful that SCOTUS will allow testers to continue to play a meaningful role in the enforcement of civil rights laws and bring the ADA's still-unfulfilled promise closer to fruition.
September 12, 2023
DREDF joined a letter to protest a recent decision by an Advisory Committee of National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities to not recognize people with disabilities as a health disparity population across the National Institutes of Health.