Summer 2006
Special Focus Issue:
Disabilities & Civil Rights.
. . . Reinert
The disability
civil rights movement is seen as occurring within a more recent time frame than
other civil rights movements.
Emotional Support Animal or Service Animal
for
Law Purposes Does it Make A Difference? .
. . . Danon
Federal and
The End of Seclusion and Restraint.
. . . Cramer, McGrath & Ruben
The article will
discuss the growing trend towards the elimination of violence and coercion on
in-patient, locked psychiatric units around the country and in
No Exit for Patients Confined at the
“Exit sign: The
exit sign in the main corridor has an arrow on it that points to the day
room. However, there is not exit to the
outside of the building in the day room.”
Guardianship Reform in
Thousands of
adult
The Importance of the Right to
Representation in a Guardianship Proceeding. . . . Beyranevand
Not so long ago,
I was interviewed by what felt like the entire staff of the Vermont Legal Aid
for a position as a staff attorney with the Disability Law Project. Among the questions asked were: Had I ever
worked with disabled clients? Did I have any disabled relatives? Was I
accustomed to being around people with disabilities? At the time, I found myself asking, what
difference does it make?
Representation of Clients Who are Deaf or
Hard of Hearing. . . . Jacobs, McClintock & Scanlon, L.P.C,
edited by Robert Appel
Consider This: A
prospective client who is deaf or hard of hearing comes to your office for an
initial consultation, requests an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter and
asks you to pay for the interpreter’s services.
You agree to the request, and meet your prospective client with an ASL
interpreter present. After considering
the facts of the case, you decide not to take the matter. Do you have to pay for the interpreter?
Special Education: Will the “Improvements” Decrease Protections for Parents and Students? .
. . . Blackwood
This article will
look at several areas in which the new Act purports to “improve” the education
of individuals with disabilities.
DEPARTMENTS
President’s Column.
. . Gallagher
Should Lawyers Be Required To
Disclose Whether They Have Malpractice Insurance?
Ruminations: The Extradition Trial of
Bennett Young, The Twelfth Annual
E.D. Fuller, owner of a livery stable in St. Albans,
returned to his shop, unaware that rebel raiders had taken over the town,
robbed three banks, and were in the process of gathering horses to escape to
Yankee
Justice: The Lighter Side of the Law, John Swainbank: Memories of a County. .
. .
“I
went to
I advocate for
attorneys to live happily and prosper in their chosen field of work within the
legal profession.
Book Review ~ The House the Jim Crow Built:
A Seminal Case in the Struggle for Racial Equality.
. .
In 1925 a young
black physician name Ossian Sweet and his wife, Gladys, bought a house in an
affluent neighborhood in
Book Review ~ Keeping the Right Company: A
Journey Into Small Business and Textbook for
John Abrams
dropped out of
Book Review ~ Interpreting
Authoritative Texts: A Noted Scholar
Explores the Similarities Between Constitutional and Biblical Interpretation.
. . Dembinski
Interpreting the
Bible & the Constitution is pioneering work on what could be a whole new
field of American studies. It may also
be the first and last, an “alpha and omega,” of its kind.