In a lawsuit filed in federal court today, Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins seek justice for the 36 years they each served in prison for a crime they did not commit. As teenagers, the three men were wrongfully convicted of a 1983 murder of a Harlem Park Junior High School student. Now in their fifties, the men were exonerated of the murder in 2019 after the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office re-investigated their case and determined that they were innocent. Their 108 combined years of wrongful incarceration is the longest in American history.
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BGL attorneys successfully resolved an employment discrimination and retaliation case against the Department of the Army for a blind daycare provider at Aberdeen Proving Ground, who alleged that her supervisor discriminated against her because she is blind and retaliated against her because she filed an EEOC complaint.
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The filed lawsuit claims Texas’s reliance on exclusively paper vote-by-mail ballots keeps blind Texans and other Texans with disabilities who require accessible ballots from participation in mail-in voting.
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A coalition of disability organizations and individual voters sued the Commonwealth of Virginia for excluding Virginians with disabilities from absentee voting in November.
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Maryann Murad, a blind Michigan resident, and the National Federation of the Blind have reached an agreement with Amazon.com resolving the employment discrimination lawsuit they brought in September of 2019.
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A federal judge refused to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools alleging the district’s use of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities violates federal law.
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The IRS has agreed to develop and implement a process to allow blind taxpayers to request post-filing tax notices—such as notices about additional taxes or penalties owed—in Braille, large print, or electronic formats.
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A major victory against the Trump Administration’s attempt to block abortion access for consumers on the Affordable Care Act exchanges, Judge vacated “Separate Billing Rule.”
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Washington Lawyers’ Committee is recognizing Brown Goldstein & Levy, Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient, for our hard work on behalf of people who are blind.
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DRM announces Andy Levy as 2020 honoree of the Lorraine Sheehan Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of his service to people with disabilities.
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