autism – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:32:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Disabled rights roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/disabled-rights-roundup-8/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/disabled-rights-roundup-8/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:05:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=47944 Willingness of Connecticut courts to order accommodation of mental disorders is not limitless, as in case of “dazed and confused” teacher who “frequently reported to the wrong school or for the wrong class” [Chris Engler at Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog; Langello v. West Haven Board of Education] “‘Seinfeld’ diner sued for not being […]

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  • Willingness of Connecticut courts to order accommodation of mental disorders is not limitless, as in case of “dazed and confused” teacher who “frequently reported to the wrong school or for the wrong class” [Chris Engler at Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog; Langello v. West Haven Board of Education]
  • “‘Seinfeld’ diner sued for not being handicap-friendly” [NY Post] Florida lawyers descend on New Jersey to file ADA suits [N.J. Civil Justice Institute]
  • “Plaintiffs want to expand lawsuit against Disney for how it treats guests with autism” [Orlando Sentinel]
  • It’s “sad that we need a federal appellate court to remind us” that ADA’s protection of alcoholism does not actually immunize worker fired after repeatedly driving municipal employer’s vehicles drunk [Jon Hyman, Ohio Employer Law Blog]
  • “Employers beware: EEOC appears to be stepping up disability discrimination enforcement” [Hyman] EEOC sues Wal-Mart over firing of intellectually disabled employee [Rockford Register-Star, EEOC]
  • Nice crowd your ADA racket attracts, California [Modesto Bee]
  • Argument: Employers that use “emotional intelligence” measurement in evaluating job applicants may be violating ADA rights of those with autism [Michael John Carley, HuffPo]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/09/disabled-rights-roundup-8/feed/ 3     Stoking the anti-vaccine panic https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/stoking-anti-vaccine-panic/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/stoking-anti-vaccine-panic/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:34:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45592 Many share blame for this appalling episode, but as Lisa Rickard reminds us, trial lawyers who backed Andrew Wakefield played a special role [Forbes “Apothecary”] Earlier here, etc. Tags: autism, vaccines

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    ]]>     Many share blame for this appalling episode, but as Lisa Rickard reminds us, trial lawyers who backed Andrew Wakefield played a special role [Forbes “Apothecary”] Earlier here, etc.

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/04/stoking-anti-vaccine-panic/feed/ 3     RFK Jr. likens effects of vaccination to Nazi death camps https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/rfk-jr-likens-effects-vaccination-nazi-death-camps/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/rfk-jr-likens-effects-vaccination-nazi-death-camps/#comments Thu, 30 May 2013 14:50:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=38806 Yes, America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure® is at it again. [Orac, Respectful Insolence] For good measure, the celebrity environmentalist/wayward scion, speaking in Chicago at a conference called Autism One, is quoted as saying of Dr. Paul Offit and other vaccine scientists, “They should be in jail and the key should be thrown away.” [Age of […]

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    ]]>     Yes, America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure® is at it again. [Orac, Respectful Insolence] For good measure, the celebrity environmentalist/wayward scion, speaking in Chicago at a conference called Autism One, is quoted as saying of Dr. Paul Offit and other vaccine scientists, “They should be in jail and the key should be thrown away.” [Age of Autism]

    Update: As of Tues. June 3 in the afternoon, the AoA blog post has been taken down. [h/t Justin Miller]

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/05/rfk-jr-likens-effects-vaccination-nazi-death-camps/feed/ 14     February 3 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:10:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27321 Judge blocks California budget cuts re: in-home services for disabled [Mercury News] Media exploited her daughter for titillation, claims suit by mother of “Toddlers & Tiaras” star [Above the Law] Narrower definition of autism ahead? [Althouse] “Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel for Criticizing the Police” [Sullum, Popehat] Prince George’s County, Maryland, wants to […]

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  • Judge blocks California budget cuts re: in-home services for disabled [Mercury News]
  • Media exploited her daughter for titillation, claims suit by mother of “Toddlers & Tiaras” star [Above the Law]
  • Narrower definition of autism ahead? [Althouse]
  • “Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel for Criticizing the Police” [Sullum, Popehat]
  • Prince George’s County, Maryland, wants to ban liquor deliveries; no harm linked to them, but you can’t be too sure [Ben Giles, Washington Examiner] Centers for Disease Control’s curious definition of “binge” drinking [Sullum]
  • The law of authors’ liability for inaccurate memoirs [Mark Fowler, Rights Of Writers; earlier here, etc.]
  • “Diagnosing Liability: The Legal History of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” [Deirdre M. Smith, SSRN via TortsProf]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/feed/ 1     December 20 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:09:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=26263 No regulatory surge under Obama? Check the numbers please [WSJ edit, James Gattuso/Heritage] Now online: Federalist Society convention panels on regulation [Cass et al, Epstein et al] “House passes REINS Act, president promises veto” [Adler, Mike Kelsey/Heritage] Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act “dying in Senate committee” [PoL] Study: NY municipalities battered by litigation [Sydney […]

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  • No regulatory surge under Obama? Check the numbers please [WSJ edit, James Gattuso/Heritage] Now online: Federalist Society convention panels on regulation [Cass et al, Epstein et al] “House passes REINS Act, president promises veto” [Adler, Mike Kelsey/Heritage] Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act “dying in Senate committee” [PoL]
  • Study: NY municipalities battered by litigation [Sydney Cresswell & Michael Landon-Murray, Rockefeller/Albany, PDF]
  • Dodd-Frank and corporate credit [David Henderson]
  • Inside the great Las Vegas condo-board-takeover scam [Bloomberg, earlier]
  • “Copyright Law and European Compilations of U.S. Jazz Recordings” [Kerr, Volokh]
  • Autism-care cheat: “Former MoFo Partner Draws 12-Month Sentence in Fraud Case” [Recorder]
  • Would privacy torts do better? Jim Harper on the Fair Credit Reporting Act [Cato Institute, PDF]
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    ]]>         Hotel chain will pay $132,500 for dismissing autistic desk clerk https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:07:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25922 The EEOC says Comfort Suites dismissed the clerk when it should instead have accepted the services of a state-paid “job coach” who might have “helped the clerk learn to master his job by using autism-specific training techniques.” [EEOC press release, Fox San Diego] Tags: autism, disabled rights, EEOC, hotels

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    ]]>     The EEOC says Comfort Suites dismissed the clerk when it should instead have accepted the services of a state-paid “job coach” who might have “helped the clerk learn to master his job by using autism-specific training techniques.” [EEOC press release, Fox San Diego]

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/feed/ 12     November 17 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:25:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25586 Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm] Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor “Golden Holocaust”] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on […]

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  • Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm]
  • Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor “Golden Holocaust”] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on Drugs (or Booze, take your pick) [Perry]
  • Controversy over definition of medical disorders in DSM-V has implications for workplace law including ADA, FMLA [Labor Related, petition]
  • “Not Safe to Display an American Flag in an American High School” [Volokh]
  • “Criminal Defense Lawyer Charged in Alleged $1.5M Fraud On Clients Obtained Under False Pretenses” [ABA Journal, Greenfield; Texas]
  • Father of Notre Dame student who died says family never considered suing [Chicago Tribune]
  • “The Ignominious End Of The Digitek Mass Tort” [Beck]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/feed/ 2     Salon yanks discredited RFK Jr. vaccine piece https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:48:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=20986 Six years late, the online publication is throwing in the towel on a notorious venture into antiscientific claptrap by America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, Carter at Point of Law reports that the newly civility-aware celebrity environmentalist will be headlining a “Progressive Voices Cruise” of the Caribbean that by total coincidence […]

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    ]]>     Six years late, the online publication is throwing in the towel on a notorious venture into antiscientific claptrap by America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, Carter at Point of Law reports that the newly civility-aware celebrity environmentalist will be headlining a “Progressive Voices Cruise” of the Caribbean that by total coincidence will also feature attorney Michael Papantonio, with whose Levin Papantonio injury-law firm the hothead scion has long been associated, a connection curiously absent from his current Wikipedia page and most other coverage (& welcome Jonathan Adler readers).

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/feed/ 3     “Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent” https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:36:27 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=20841 A British Medical Journal editorial confirms that scientific misconduct by then-Dr. Andrew Wakefield was even worse than previously assumed. The resulting media-fueled panic led parents to refuse vaccination in large numbers, and childhood scourges such as measles soared as a result, with disability and even death resulting. Wakefield was being financed by lawyers hoping to […]

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    ]]>     A British Medical Journal editorial confirms that scientific misconduct by then-Dr. Andrew Wakefield was even worse than previously assumed. The resulting media-fueled panic led parents to refuse vaccination in large numbers, and childhood scourges such as measles soared as a result, with disability and even death resulting. Wakefield was being financed by lawyers hoping to sue the vaccine industry. [Respectful Insolence, CNN, AP, Adler]

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/feed/ 16     “1-800-Ask-Gary firm sues lawyers over critical blog” https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog/ Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:59:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=20012 “Three lawyers say they were just engaging in legitimate speech about the 1-800-Ask-Gary [lawyer-referral] hot line. Not amused, the people behind Ask Gary sued.” [Tampa Tribune] Separately, the hotline’s founder, Sarasota chiropractor Gary Kompothecras, has drawn press attention for the active role he’s taken in the autism-vaccine wars. [Miami New Times and followups here and […]

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    ]]>     “Three lawyers say they were just engaging in legitimate speech about the 1-800-Ask-Gary [lawyer-referral] hot line. Not amused, the people behind Ask Gary sued.” [Tampa Tribune] Separately, the hotline’s founder, Sarasota chiropractor Gary Kompothecras, has drawn press attention for the active role he’s taken in the autism-vaccine wars. [Miami New Times and followups here and here]

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