For a few months, I’ve been trying to track new regulations or announcements in the Federal Register affecting disability rights. I failed miserably because the word “disability” appears so often in the Federal Register in innocuous ways that I was…
Legal Update: July 2026
Apart from catching a nasty head cold after the ADA Symposium in Phoenix, July was pretty uneventful for me. There also wasn’t much happening in the courts. Even in the 7th Circuit, Plaintiffs Can Still Be Kicked Out: Cole v.…
The Coming Assault on Disability Rights
This post goes way beyond digital accessibility. It should get the usual “red alert” treatment, but it’s much bigger than that. If the past red alerts were like fire alarms in your building, this is more like a tsunami alert…
Legal Update: June 2026
After a couple of quiet months, June had plenty to talk about. New York’s federal courts managed to show off both faces of the Calcano line in the same few weeks and the Central District of California kept feeding cases…
RED ALERT: SBA Advocacy Threatens Entire DOJ Title II Web Rule
We Called It: The SBA’s Weak Case for Killing the Title II Web Rule Unfortunately, it’s back to the barricades. Two years ago, just after the Supreme Court decided Loper Bright v. Raimondo, we predicted that someone would eventually use…
Legal Update: May 2026
May was a noticeably calmer month with hardly any cases to report on. That’s not to say it’s been a slow month after HHS extended the deadline of its new Section 504 web accessibility requirements back a year. California Courts…
HHS Delays the Section 504 Web Accessibility Deadline
Three weeks ago, I warned that HHS was preparing to postpone the Section 504 web and mobile accessibility deadline. Well, it happened. On May 7, HHS published an Interim Final Rule that extends the compliance deadline by one year. Recipients…
Legal Update: April 2026
April was a quiet month in the courts. The action this month was elsewhere. On the regulatory front, the DOJ published an interim final rule extending the Title II web accessibility compliance deadlines by one year, and HHS is threatening…
RED ALERT: The HHS Section 504 Rule Is in Danger
Three weeks ago, I wrote about DOJ’s Interim Final Rule, which delayed the ADA Title II web accessibility deadline. I called it what it was: a needless and legally shaky procedural move that harmed people with disabilities. Today, the same…
DOJ Delays the Title II Web Accessibility Deadline — Don’t Sit Back
On April 20, 2026, the Department of Justice published an Interim Final Rule extending both compliance deadlines for the 2024 Title II web accessibility rule by one year. State and local government entities with a total population of 50,000 or…