Disability Law Center

For Immediate Release October 19, 2020 Contacts Meredith Weaver, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Advocates: 510-665-8644, mweaver@dralegal.org Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation, Disability Law Center: 617-723-8455, tpritchard@dlc-ma.org Kim Charlson, Immediate…

Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation tpritchard@dlc-ma.org or 617-723-8455 Ext. 138 October 13, 2020 FEDERAL COURT APPROVES AGREED JUDGMENT IN CASE THAT DLC FILED TO ENSURE ACCESSIBLE VOTE BY…

Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation On August 21, 2020, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts – Charlson, et al., v. Secretary of…

For Immediate Release Contact: Tatum A. Pritchard, Director of Litigation On August 21, 2020, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on behalf of six…

August 21, 2020 Today, DLC filed an Emergency Petition with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on behalf of six individual petitioners, Bay State Council of the Blind, and the…

Friends, Our nation has been rocked by tragedy and pain during the past few months. We were shaken by the disparate impact that COVID-19 has had on the disability community…

A forum for questions on disability benefits, rights and workplace issues in the era of COVID-19. With experts from the Disability Law Center, the ARC of Massachusetts, and Work without…

On April 27, 2020, DLC informed the Department of Correction that it had found probable cause to initiate investigations of MCI-Shirley and MCI-Norfolk based on reports of prisoners with disabilities…

DLC and several partners submitted a letter to the Department of Public Health on April 17th urging the adoption of a statewide hospital visitor policy that includes reasonable accommodations for…

On April 16, 2020, the Disability Law Center,and Mental Health Legal Advisors (MHLAC) made an urgent request for information after receiving reports about the rapid spread of COVID-19 within inpatient…